Cyclamen 2010

[mark smyth]

thanks Pat. Yes the leaves are very thick.

[mark smyth]

what's the plant in your photo DSCF0140.jpg ?

[cycnich]

This is Cyclamen hederifolium 'Tilebarn Greville' there is a sister seedling Tilebarn Shirley which has identical leaves the difference is Greville has pink flowers and Shirley has white, both very nice plants that come more or less true from seed but still need careful selection and named by Peter Moore of course.

[mark smyth]

It's a stunner

[mark smyth]

and Tilebarn is only 23 miles from Gatwick. I feel an urge building 

[Gerry Webster]

Paid a visit to Tilebarn nursery in Kent on Saturday. A warm welcome from Peter and Elizabeth as usual and I came away with quite a few goodies not only cyclamen but a couple of nice galanthus as well. A few photos of the stock plants and plants for sale.

I don't drive much these days,  so it's quite a time since I last visited Tilebarn. It's good to see it looks as impressive as it ever did. Peter is one of the most skilled growers I have ever encountered - & not just of cyclamen -  he is also a lovely man as Pat notes.   

[Luc Gilgemyn]

I hear the rumour that he's planning to stop ?? 

[Gabriel B]

I had an odd flower with 7 petals on my silver-leaved Cyclamen hederifolium. Two of the petals are slenderer than the others, looking like they were split from one petal. There are only three sepals, two of which look like they've been fused from two sepals each, so that the actual number of sepals is the normal 5.

The flower began to wilt rather than setting seed, so I pulled it from the plant. It had a short stem, thick near the base, that didn't raise it above the leaves.

1. silver leaved form (at top), along with other Cyclamen hederifolium leaf forms
2. 7 petals of flower, view from underneath
3. split petals, side view
4. 1 normal, 2 fused sepals, view from above

[Maggi Young]

Greetings Erutuon, welcome to the Forum.

We find that Cyclamen of all sorts quite often have these deformities in the flowers but they seem random and not permanent mutations.
I always feel that cyclamen and plants like them, with very soft succulent growth, are more prone to such problems  than flowers of shrubby, woodier  plants.

[Tony Willis]

A testing time for some Cyclamen mirabile seedlings. The snow on top of the frozen pot has melted,the leaves floated to the top and the water refrozen as a thick layer of ice. At least they will not suffer from drought as they thaw.

[Gerdk]

new species -
Cyclamen nymphaeoides?   

Gerd

[Hans J]

Gerd - I dont agree with you !

I think this is more Cyclamen natans 

Hans

[Paul T]

How about ....

Cyclamen aquaticus ssp glacialis?

That seems particularly fitting. 

[ArnoldT]

Here are two different C. hederifolium

[Guff]

Coum variegated seedling