Cyclamen 2009

[Maggi Young]

Nice to see it's stopped raining in Aberdeen Maggi, you've taken your waterproof off!

Not really, Shelagh, it's  just rotted with all the water..... I'll mend it though 

[Tony Willis]

A couple of cyclamen out today. The first is a late flowering Cyclamen cyprium
 and the second the first of my Cyclamen alpinum.

[shelagh]

Tony in order to compare your C alpinum with my X, what size pot is yours in?

[Tony Willis]

Shelagh  its in a 5 inch diameter pot and has been since 2000 without being repotted or fed, just regular Provado to keep the vine weevils at bay. Your hybrid is lovely.

[Jo]

Not sure if this is the correct place to put these pictures, but the Cyclamen have certainly been brightening up our porch during this bitter weather.  They don't usually reside there but in the greenhouse or frame but Brian thought they needed some TLC whilst it was freezing solid every night.

The first pictures are of Cyclamen persicum, a few years old this one and it has flowered before.  The second is Cyclamen elegans x alpinum, this is the first time it has flowered it was sown 2006.  It's flower only one so far but more to come, is just 1cm long and across.  Both plants come from Cyclamen Society seed.

Hi Shelagh,

what are the leaves like on your elegans x alpinum ?  and did you get the seed of this cross from the cyc soc seed exchange ?

Jo

[ashley]

Cyclamen purpurascens, a bit out of season but bringing with it some wonderful bulb seed

[Gerry Webster]

I've been looking for seed of these for years.

[Maggi Young]

By, jove, that's an old catalogue you're using there, Gerry!   Are you sure they're still in business? 

[Gerry Webster]

By, jove, that's an old catalogue you're using there, Gerry!   Are you sure they're still in business? 

I've tried emailing, but no response so far.

[Maggi Young]

By, jove, that's an old catalogue you're using there, Gerry!   Are you sure they're still in business? 

I've tried emailing, but no response so far.

 

 I have to say, I think they are using highly doctored photos in that catalogue , so even if you made contact, I think it would end in tears when the plants didn't look like the pictures.........
 I had the same heartbreak over a blue rose.....

[Gerry Webster]

By, jove, that's an old catalogue you're using there, Gerry!   Are you sure they're still in business? 

I've tried emailing, but no response so far.

 

 I have to say, I think they are using highly doctored photos in that catalogue , so even if you made contact, I think it would end in tears when the plants didn't look like the pictures.........
 I had the same heartbreak over a blue rose.....

Stop destroying my illusions Maggi - I always trust nursery catalogues.

[shelagh]

Hi Jo, sorry it's taken me a while to get back to you. The leaves are beautifully marked and very compact and 2 more flowers have come out.

[Jo]

Shelagh, the leaves are really beautiful aren't they, is it the first time its flowered for you ?  Did it take long to flower from seed sowing ?

[shelagh]

Jo it was sown 8.1.06 and these are the first flowers and the seed came direct from the Cyclamen Society.  They have a very good seed exchange.

[Roma]

I've been attending digital photography classes provided by Aberdeen College.  On Thursday we had a 'field trip' to the Duthie Park winter gardens.  It was very wet and windy so we were glad to be inside.  The Cyclamen persicum hybrids are not alpines but they were very colourful.  The ones bedded out aren't too bad but those on the benches were a bit boring.  It's a long time since I'd been to the park but I seem to remember big zonal geraniums trained on the wall at the back of the long corridor.  I suppose it is easier to grow large quantities of one plant and change the whole display at once rather than having a mixed display of plants.
The first pictures are the bedded out plants followed by the large flowered hyrids in the long corridor at the back of the greenhouses.
These are followed by smaller flowered hybrids in a corridor leading back to the main greenhouses.