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Melvyn Jope

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Cyclamen 2011
« on: January 02, 2011, 08:55:26 PM »
A Happy New Year to all Cyclamen enthusiasts.

Looking around in the greenhouse today I found a couple of remaining flowers on Cyclamen cilicium and C.hederifolium but C. persicum ssp autumnale is looking good despite the cold weather that we have had.
I think the most interesting plants at the moment are the flowers on C.elegans, the first plant has a regular leaf pattern, the second a more silver appearance. I grow them under glass here fearing that they would not survive outside.

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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #1 on: January 03, 2011, 11:43:39 AM »
Melvyn,

By way of overlap, I found the first flower for the summer season on a Cyclamen hederifolium in a pot on the 27th of December.  A cooler spring has meant that it is a little later than has been the last few years (probably a week or so).  I used to always think of Cyc hed as summer/autumn, but they are definitely the height of summer here.  With the much wetter winter spring we've had here it will be interesting to see how their flowering is affected.

Thanks for the pics.  You don't often see elegans, and those are beauties.  8)
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #2 on: January 03, 2011, 08:01:03 PM »
Nice to see some 'perfect' flowers.  I spotted the first Cyclamen coum flowers in the garden today, looking a little sad.   All my C coum are seed raised from various sources quite a while ago, added to be self sowing.  The recent cold and ice has left significant damage to the foliage in some places, although not all plants are affected.  Perhaps those which have suffered most have elegans genes in them?  I have not seen cold damage like this before (in 20 years) - the melting snow refroze several times before the thaw set in, sitting on the foliage below as a hard, icy crust, not an 'insulating blanket' of snow at all.  Hope it killed off a few pests as well!

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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #3 on: January 03, 2011, 09:51:41 PM »
Great pictures Melvyn. Here the snow melts slowly in the rock garden but some parts are snowfree...
First picture : Cyclamen coum and second Cyclamen cilicium.
 
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #4 on: January 08, 2011, 04:41:39 AM »
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #5 on: January 08, 2011, 01:13:54 PM »
a unusual Cyclamen purpurascens,
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2011, 10:37:00 AM »
Udo,

Great strong colour, and I just LOVE those leaves.  What a beauty!! :o
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #7 on: January 09, 2011, 12:26:39 PM »
A Cyclamen coum  which was sown in January 2010 flowering here for the first time.
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #8 on: January 09, 2011, 07:21:41 PM »
That's a quick mover, Wim!
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2011, 08:23:42 AM »
That's a quick mover, Wim!

I thought so too.
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2011, 01:43:01 PM »
Here are Cyclamen coum Golan Heights and the silver leaved form of Cyclamen (coum) elegans.

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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #11 on: January 11, 2011, 02:19:32 PM »
Wow, I'm once again, jealous!  Wim, what did you feed that thing!  Atomic waste?

Mine are all still under snow, as I grow them exclusively in the garden, but I did notice some deep magenta, or should I say cyclamen coloured spots in the melting ice.  I must say, there a few plants with such a satisfying effect in the awakening garden.
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #12 on: January 11, 2011, 03:21:21 PM »
Wim, what did you feed that thing!  Atomic waste?

 ;D ;D I just made sure it kept on growing for the entire year without going into rest.
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2011, 05:18:49 PM »
Wim, what did you feed that thing!  Atomic waste?

 ;D ;D I just made sure it kept on growing for the entire year without going into rest.

Interesting, then it doesn't require deep cold and a rest in order to produce blossoms.  Good to know, even if <i continue to grow them solely in the garden.
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Re: Cyclamen 2011
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2011, 06:24:38 PM »
Wim, what did you feed that thing!  Atomic waste?

 ;D ;D I just made sure it kept on growing for the entire year without going into rest.

Interesting, then it doesn't require deep cold and a rest in order to produce blossoms.  Good to know, even if <i continue to grow them solely in the garden.

Actually, I think they do need rest. Only not in their first year.
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