Cyclamen 2009

[Diane Clement]

Speaking of C. hederifolium, we planted a batch if various kinds of CS hederifolium seed on the 12th of December 2008.  Each variety is rather overcrowded in 3" square pots.  Tonight I noticed 5 hederifolium 'Nettleton Silver' seedlings are about to open flowers.  I've never had cyclamen bloom so early in life.  Is this usual for ex 'Nettleton Silver' seedlings?  Or should I blame Ian Young's recommendation of frequent  applications of sulphate of potash?  Nothing as good as the foliage of a 'Nettleton Silver' I got from Potterton & Martin has appeared amongst the seedlings, ...yet.   johnw 

I've had C coum flower in 10 months from sowing, that's my fastest.  But I have never flowered C hederifolium in the first year.

[Thomas Huber]

I had purpurascens in flower 14 months after sowing.
Hederifolium took two years.

[ashley]

I have received and sown seeds of Cyclamen leicolor in 2007 from a bulgarian botanical garden origin. I have found nothing about this species or ... Looking at the leaves now, I suppose it is a form (?) of Cyclamen persicum. What do you think about it ?
Dom

Dom I've never heard of C. leicolor, even as a synonym, but yes it looks like persicum.  It will be interesting to see the flowers ...

[johnw]

I've had C coum flower in 10 months from sowing, that's my fastest.  But I have never flowered C hederifolium in the first year.

Thanks all.  Strangely the coums of the same sowing are very slow this time round.

Most of the hederifoliums to flower seem to be white.

johnw

[Martin Baxendale]

I have received and sown seeds of Cyclamen leicolor in 2007 from a bulgarian botanical garden origin. I have found nothing about this species or ... Looking at the leaves now, I suppose it is a form (?) of Cyclamen persicum. What do you think about it ?
Dom

LEI Color is a commercial colour range (see: http://www.colorhunter.com/tag/lei/2 )  I don't think leicolor is meant to be a botanical name, but a garden name meant to suggest the wide range of colours in Cyclamen persicum.

[dominique]

Thank you Martin. I found curious that a botanical garden proposed this with other wild plants ! Ashley, I hope they bloom this spring. Perhaps surprises, perhaps ordinary commercial plants ? But I find they have nice leaves

[johnw]

It would be cool if this leaf type stabilized on this purpurascens seedling.

johnw

[Paul T]

Howdy All,

Just caught up with this topic.  Some crackers of Cyclamen in here, particularly the C. hederifolium Rosenteppich from Melvyn and all those wonderful mirabile, graecums and the rohlfsianums.  Some really beautiful leaf forms too, which I've not seen before.  Thanks everyone. 

[Guff]

The bed is still putting on a good showing of flowers.

[ashley]

That's a fine colony of hederifolium Guff, and a good range of leaf types.  
Clearly they enjoy the needle mulch which sets them off so well

A rather promising purpurascens there all right John.  
Have you ever tried seed from Jan Bravenboer?  I've been delighted with the results.

[johnw]

That's a fine colony of hederifolium Guff, and a good range of leaf types.  
Clearly they enjoy the needle mulch which sets them off so well

A rather promising purpurascens there all right John.  
Have you ever tried seed from Jan Bravenboer?  I've been delighted with the results.

Ashley - I have perused his list many times and drooled over his Picco Rosso.

Any particular recommendations?

johnw

[Gerry Webster]

It would be cool if this leaf type stabilized on this purpurascens seedling.
johnw

Very nice John. By the way, I am told by friends who have teenage kids that the current expression is "straight out of the fridge."

[johnw]

Very nice John. By the way, I am told by friends who have teenage kids that the current expression is "straight out of the fridge."

Good to know Gerry and I'm sure there's a hand signal to go with that.  It meant dead when I was a teen.  

That leaf shape reminds me of a dwarf perennial plant I was given out west. I forget the name but it was a shiny green, grew on rock walls and cliffs in the southwest of England, looked like  Pilea peperomioides and died the first winter.  M..... or  O.....

johnw

[Hans A.]

@Guff - very nice view, I had to check twice you really are in NY and not somewhere in Italy

@John, your C.purpurascens seedling is very interesting - I hope it keeps such leaves!

[Guff]

Ashley, Hans thanks.

I'm very happy with the bed. If my new coum bed survives, my next goal is to have a bed with a couple hundred purpurascens. I do like purpurascens the best, the scent is amazing.