Cyclamen 2011

[Guff]

Hederifolium

[Gerdk]

Can't resist to show this dark hederifolium here also

Gerd

[David Nicholson]

That is nice Gerd.

Couple of pics here of a darker pink form of Cyclamen cilicium, my other plants all seem to be a paler pink.

[Maggi Young]

That is nice Gerd.

Couple of pics here of a darker pink form of Cyclamen cilicium, my other plants all seem to be a paler pink.

Very elegant flower in shape and colour , David.


Gerd, I adore these dark velvety shades... very attractive. I keep sowing any seed I can in hopes of getting such a luscious dark form.

[annew]

Me too, Maggi. My Ruby Glow gives only about 5% dark flowered seedlings, despite hand pollination. Does anyone have a reliable true seeder, who could spare a few seeds?

[Gerdk]

Thanks alltogether!

Don't know if I have a reliable seeder because until now I didn't test the
progeny of my plants.

The special type I showed came from Green Ice Nursery - Netherlands but is  widespread in our neighbouring country very likely because I saw plants offered by another nursery.

Gerd

[pehe]

A pot of Cyclamen mirabile seedlings


Poul

[Maggi Young]

A good example of why it is a great idea to grow from seed.... look at the differences, subtle but definite, in Poul's C. mirabile  seedlings.... VERY attractive!

[Tony Willis]

My cyclamen are now starting to move along

first two forms of

Cyclamen intaminatum
then
Cyclamen mirabile  and Cyclamen cilicicum bith with quite large flowers

[Martin Baxendale]

That pink intaminatum is very nice, Tony.

[Roma]

Good to see Cyclamen intaminatum and cilicium doing well.  I repotted mine this year and so far they are just putting up an odd flower and are beginning to leaf. 
2 Cyclamen mirabile grown from SRGC seed as 'Tilebarn Nicholas' photographed about 10 days ago.  They have more leaves now but still just one flower between them.  There are more buds to come

[Roma]

I have Cyclamen hederifolium seeding all over the garden but the best plants are in the strip of gravel between the path and the house wall.  Some were planted and some self sown.

[fleurbleue]

Waouh ! very nice pink patterned leaves Roma  I love them 

[Roma]

Cyclamen hederifolium in the greenhouse
The best flowered one this year, from the top and from the side
My deepest pink - not an attractive flower - too fat and dumpy for my liking
One of my favourites - not a pure white, but such an elegant shape.  The leaves are good too, more lime green than silver with darker green markings along a wavy edge.

[Roma]

Thanks Nicole

Another two in the greenhouse
Cyclamen purpurascens flowers over a long period but most plants do not have many flowers open at a time.  This one has just begun flowering.  It is a good deep colour and does not fade as quickly as some.  It came from Cyclamen Society seed and I think it's mum was a Templeton Trophy winner some years ago.

I am very pleased so many of my Cyclamen graecum plants have survived being frozen in the winter.  I did lose three of the bigger tubers which had 12 to 15 flowers last year.  Most disappointing as I have not done well with graecum till this batch grown from Cyclamen Society seed sown in 2003 and 2004.  They seed was from wild collected plants.  I'm never going to have specimens like those seen at AGS and Cyclamen Society shows but if I get more than half a dozen flowers on a plant I'll be happy.  I do have a white one from Paul Christian a number of years ago.  It used to live in the house but has been in the greenhouse a few years now and also survived last winter.