Cyclamen 2010

[johngennard]

Thank you all.I am overwhelmed.

[KentGardener]

John - 30 years in the planning have paid off big time.  Absolutely stunning!   

[angie]

John what a fantastic display, thanks for sharing this with us. I just love their dainty flowers. I have only started growing cyclamen since I joined the rock garden club, which has only been a few years but I can't wait till I get a clump like yours. 30 years to wait... I will be 84 then so it will need to be a huge clump that I will be able to see my plant 
Love the Hepatica.

Angie

[David Nicholson]

Just trying to catch up a bit before jetting off to Spain on Saturday for a week, so a few Cyclamen from the greenhouse.

The first two are a plant I first posted last year grown from seed from the SRGC Seed Ex., labeled as Cyclamen africanum, which were sown on 19 February 2007. The general feeling last year was that they were Cyclamen hederifolium.

The third is another plant from the same batch of seed and flowering this year for the first time.

The fourth and fifth-C. hederifolium I bought at the Wisley Plant Centre in 2008 as Silver Leaf Form, can't wait for the leaves to appear.

Sixth and seventh-Cyclamen intaminatum.

And the last couple are of newly emerged leaves from Cyclamen mirabile 'Tilebarn Nicholas' no flowers as yet.

[Tony Willis]

John a wonderful display and a delight to see.

David a nice group of plants I like the intaminatum it is very delicate.

[Tony Willis]

three Cyclamen cilcicum and two Cyclamen mirable starting to flower now

[krisderaeymaeker]

Very very nice John ,Tony and David .
Here a lot of Cyclamen flower or start to flower.
Here a young specimen of Cyclamen graecum subsp. candicum ,Cyclamen purpurascens ( leaves and flowers ), Cyclamen hederifolium 'Stargazer'

[Maggi Young]

Kris, when I see your Star Gazer flowers I cannot help but think of an ancient English  "delicacy" : Stargazey Pie  

This is a type of Cornish pie said to date from Tudor times -  Stargazey Pie was traditionally  made from seven different types of fish with boiled eggs and layer of mashed potato underneath the crust of pastry from which fish head and tails protrude – giving the pie its name as the fish 'gaze' at the sky.

 see here for a more modern recipe..... no flowerss needed.... http://www.greatbritishkitchen.co.uk/recipebook/index.php?option=com_rapidrecipe&page=viewrecipe&recipe_id=1015

 This picture is not of a real pie... it is a polymer clay miniature , see here : http://www.kivasminiatures.com/

[Mark Griffiths]

Nice C.intaminatum, David. I don't think I've seen one with such long petals before.

[Brian Ellis]

I'm glad you said that Mark, I took a photo of mine today it has much shorter petals, and doesn't twist in that attractive way.  Will that come with age?

[David Nicholson]

Just checked back on the petals on last year's pic and they were the same.

[Brian Ellis]

Mine is but a poor specimen then David, just coming into flower, but one was knocked off There are more buds to come so perhaps it will look better then

[Mark Griffiths]

Brian, yours is the same shape as most of the ones I have seen, I think David's is exceptional. I'll try and remember to put some pics of mine up - I have the white/ plain leaved form in a trough and after a decade or so it looks quite nice.

[Brian Ellis]

... after a decade or so it looks quite nice.

Thankfully I'm in no hurry

[Gerry Webster]

Just checked back on the petals on last year's pic and they were the same.

David - I wonder if your plant is a hybrid - with C. cilicium? See Grey-Wilson p71.