Cyclamen 2009

[Gerdk]

This is from a reply wich I got from John Lonsdale recently. I asked especially for hardiness.

Gerd

Lake Effect was raised as a seed strain and named by Ellen Hornig of Seneca Hill Perennials - 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.  To see some pictures you can check my web site, below.  It is a very good plant, quite variable in leaf markings, unlike Golan Heights, which is always plain green.  I have grown George Bisson from seed a few times and find it a very weak plant.  Jan Bravenboer has the same issues.  Golan Heights is reliable from seed and always flowers in the third year, but it is relatively short lived.  All three forms have proved to be hardy here in a sheltered spot in a normal winter

[Jo]

Thanks Gerdk for finding out about Lake Effect. So it is'nt a naturally occuring form like Golan Heights.   

It was also interesting to hear John finds George Bisson a weak plant, it seems to grow well for me planted out in the garden.

[Oron Peri]

C. persicum 'Karpathos' is in flower with its rare, dark cerise color.

[Jo]

Mmmm Oron that colour is lovely.  The Tb Karpathos that I did from the Cyc Soc seed exchange is flowering in a range of normal colours which is a shame. Those bees must have been at it

[Maggi Young]

C. persicum 'Karpathos' is in flower with its rare, dark cerise color.

And WHAT a colour!   

[Anthony Darby]

I agree. Stunning.

[Oron Peri]

Thanks all,

Jo, infact i find it quite difficult to keep  pure strains of C. persicum, this species is supper fertile,
In the last few years I have lost all my persicum Album strain, since all seedlings came to be normal ones.

I try to isolate good plants as much as possible, and if needed i bring them inside the house.
It is like keeping an eye on a female cat in heat...

[Jo]

I know that problem Oron after six litters of kittens. Nature is pretty powerful, and sneaky 

[David Shaw]

I am sure that there are some Cyclamen coum out there under the snow. At least I have got this one to look at.

[fermi de Sousa]

I took a few Cyclamen pics in Otto's garden in the Dandenongs on Saturday and have posted them to the Southern Hemisphere Thread, here: http://www.srgc.org.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3024.15
cheers
fermi

[Roma]

Some cyclamen flowering now.  Some old (at least 20 years) Cyclamen persicum on a bedroom windowsill.  Don't look at the cobwebs!
Cyclamen coum in the greenhouse.
Cyclamen coum close to albissimum from a mixed batch of coum seed from the Cyclamen Society.
The first Cyclamen pseudibericum to flower this year

[Anthony Darby]

What a fantastic display, although I was disappointed with the cobwebs (what cobwebs? ). I have three young daddy long legs spiders (Pholcus phalangoides) in the utility room. They spin untidy webs at ceiling height. Vivienne can't see them as she doesn't wear her glasses in there.

[Tony Willis]

Roma

very nice.I have my persicum on the bedroom windowsill as well. They just go mouldy at the crowns in the greenhouse.

[ian mcenery]

For my sins I organise the garden open programme for the Birmingham AGS Group. Yesterday we visited the garden of Vic and Jan Aspland and I thought you might appreciate seeing the variety of leaf forms of this small selection of Vic's plants (he had alot) which are mostly hederifolium

 EDIT I meant to say these were mostly hederifolium Vic grows just about every species

[Rogan]

What a fantastic collection - something you don't often (ever?) see in this country! ...and then only the overblown, expensive florists varieties.