Cyclamen 2009

[Otto Fauser]

Hans , I find it hard to believe that you struggle with C. coum , as you are in a similar
 climatic zone as I .Here in my garden and other gardens it selfsows with great vigour
almost a weed[but a nice one] , just like C. hederifolium . C. parviflorum is easy in the
garden too.

[Hans A.]

Hello Otto,
here C. hederifolium is weedy, others as C. cilicium (or cilicicum ), graecum, persicum, balearicum, repandum ssp. peloponnesiacum or rohlfsianum do fine - but coum could grow better and parviflorum I have never tried here.

Here a pic of some Cyclamen (which fortunately do not know they are no woodland plants )

[art600]

For anyone thinking of braving the weather and attending the Cyclamen Show at Wisley this coming Saturday, there is an added bonus.  Chris Sanham is putting on a display of Snowdrops 

[Maggi Young]

For anyone thinking of braving the weather and attending the Cyclamen Show at Wisley this coming Saturday, there is an added bonus.  Chris Sanham is putting on a display of Snowdrops 

 Ah, pink and white at the display then, eh?!!  Chris hasn't been around the forum much lately... perhaps he has been busy preparing his display plants.

[art600]

I hope they are grown under cover or he won't find them!!

Lots of snow - well 3 inches - and still snowing.  Good job I stocked up on food. 

[Tony Willis]

Oron,
Thank you for detailed informations about the natural occurences.
I think you are right about 'Lake Effect' - Lonsdale is the origin and
when I googled for pics of it recently it seems there is a hint of pink.

Gerd

Here is a picture(poor) of Cyclamen coum Lake Effect flowering for the first time. The seed came from John Lonsdale and is the only one I germinated. It does have a touch of pink and is beautiful.

[Jo]

Lake Effect is very pretty. What is its history ?  Is it from the same region as Golan Heights?

here are some brave cyclamen coum today
 

[Tony Willis]

You will have to ask John Lonsdale about the origin of Lake Effect,I think it is one of his selections

[Gerdk]

Super plant, Tony!

Jo, stunning pics - although white only from the snow!

So, we should ask John Lonsdale for the history of Lake Effect!
- why isn't it named ' lace effect' ?

Gerd

[Maggi Young]

I have asked John Lonsdale for his help and received this reply:
"Maggie,
It isn’t one of ‘mine’, it was raised and named by Ellen Hornig and I registered it with the Cyclamen Society on her behalf.  This was all documented somewhere on the forum in a thread a couple or three years ago.  If people want to see what it really looks like they can check my web site.
Best,
John"

Now, I have searched for this reference in an earlier thread but have only come up with a note where the same comment is made about it being a plant of John's. I have added an edit there to make the point about Ellen Hornig.

 Ref. is here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=1305.45 ..... starts with posts from Tim Murphy  ( reply 57) and a white coum!

 

[Jo]

Thanks Maggi

[Maggi Young]

Here are links to pages from The Edgewood Gardens site ( John Lonsdale) ....firs two are to pages with the different forms of white coum on, including 'Lake Effect' and the last is to just one of the photos of this charming plant.......
http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/Plants_album/The%20Plants%20-%20%20Complete%20Collection/Primulaceae/Cyclamen/Subgen%20Gyrophoebe%20Ser%201/C.%20coum/index2.html


http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/Plants_album/The%20Plants%20-%20%20Complete%20Collection/Primulaceae/Cyclamen/Subgen%20Gyrophoebe%20Ser%201/C.%20coum/index3.html

http://www.edgewoodgardens.net/Plants_album/The%20Plants%20-%20%20Complete%20Collection/Primulaceae/Cyclamen/Subgen%20Gyrophoebe%20Ser%201/C.%20coum/slides/Cyclamen%20coum%20ssp.%20coum%20f.%20albissimum%20Lake%20Effect%200008.html

[Rob Potterton]

A tray of seedling Cyclamen coum Albissimum 'Golan Heights', third year in flower at 7 years old, we use these now as stock plants for seed production, grown in bulb poly tunnel.

[Jo]

Do you find Golan heights easy Rob.  I seem to have variable success with them. I think I may be a bit generous with water 

[Rob Potterton]

Hello Jo, we find Golan Heights to be easy but less robust than normal coum. They are grown in very good light, in a warm, open ended poly tunnel on a restricted (limited) watering regime - probably underwatered rather than overwatered. In fact having just read back to Oron's comments on January 31st our cultivation is not dis-similar to his remarks on the natural habitat conditions, though probably not so hot in the summer. Has anyone had good or bad experiences of growing Golan Heights outside??