Cyclamen 2010

[Guff]

Gerd nice.

Mine do vary, this one looks good.

[Gerdk]

A super colour, Gerd! What percentage of the seedling are dark? I have C. hederifolium Ruby Glow but only about 1% of the seedlings come true. 

Sorry Anne, this is my sole plant and I didn't sow collected seeds caused by lack of time (because of house and garden moving).
If you are interested, Jan Bravenboer (Green Ice Nursery) sells this colour form - only plants listed, no seeds! Perhaps he knows the percentage of dark seedlings.

Gerd nice.
Mine do vary, this one looks good.

Yours is nice too, congratulations!
Gerd

[Guff]

Gerd thanks. Was hoping some very dark ones survived.

Jan has seed listed under C. hederifolium from extreme dark purple flowering stock plants, 15 seeds per packet.

Just to compare I picked a really good dark pink and a white. Most of my pinks are alot lighter.

[Lesley Cox]

A super colour, Gerd! What percentage of the seedling are dark? I have C. hederifolium Ruby Glow but only about 1% of the seedlings come true. 

Oh darn! If that's so, none of my half dozen seedlings from RG is likely to be dark.

[annew]

Sorry, Lesley, was the seed from me? Hope you're lucky.

[Lesley Cox]

No Anne, this was from an english nursery about 18 months ago. Your coums are doing nicely though. Should get a few flowers this season.

[Guff]

Dark purple Hederifolium, this picture you can see how much they vary.

My hederifolium bed is starting to come alive, the ones with leaves are purpurascens

[Maggi Young]

your cyclamen beds are so pretty, Guff..... I do like the different species and colours in the mix...they are going from strength to strength .

[Guff]

Maggi thanks.

I did some work on my coum bed also. I dug up all the trout lilies(might have missed some) and replaced them with crocus. I also added more crocus around the coum plants. I can't wait to see how it does. I will post pictures in another month or so, I think it will be all leaved out by then.

Ran down to my coum bed and took two quick pictures
1-2 coum

[Ragged Robin]

Such lovely leaves and flowers and so healthy looking, Guff, no wonder you are pleased with their progress - looking forward to seeing them develop as an inspiration to growing an area of Cyclamen just started on my alpine slope, in pine duff, after seeing your Cyclamen beds

[Guff]

Thanks Robin, good luck with your bed.
1-coum

[Guff]

1-2 Dark purple hederifolium
3-4 Hederifolium bed
5-6 Purpurascens in my hederifolium bed

[krisderaeymaeker]

A dark flowering hederifolium in our rockgarden.

[Diane Clement]

Suddenly, the garden is full of these.  Usually the white are first out, but not this year.

Cyclamen hederifolium

[krisderaeymaeker]

Suddenly, the garden is full of these.  Usually the white are first out, but not this year.
Cyclamen hederifolium

Same experience Diane.The white are always first out in our garden.But the dark ones are also a bit earlier then the common ones.