Cyclamen 2011

[Brian Ellis]

Some wonderful leaf forms here.  Have you given your snowdrops the same soil mix John!

[Pauli]

 
Fantastic leaves, John and very special dark flowers,  Pat!

Never seen such things here around in Austria!

[cycnich]

Hi John
          Some lovely leaves there but 6374 is very special. I have a large collection but nothing like that one it really is superb.

[johnw]

Some wonderful leaf forms here.  Have you given your snowdrops the same soil mix John!

Brian - I tried to lighten the Galanthus mix this year but it is basically the same but much leaner than the cyclamen mix.  I hope that this will not mean they are a challenge to keep properly watered. On the subject of the leaf forms of the cyclamen, Melvyn sent me the seeds about a year ago and I sprouted just over 144 seeds  - 2 flats of 72 plus a pot of a few more as I recall.  Stupidly I made my selections that first year and gave the rest away, now it is apparent that the leaves on the selected ones are dramtically different and better than they were last year and no doubt may change further next year.  Last year there were several with red-pink showing through the silver, this has not proved to be constant though a few other ones are showing this feature, not on the first leave of 2011 but on their second.  Space being such a problem I guess I did save the top ones though some wallflowers have turned out to be greatly improved in the second year. Lesson - wait till year 2 or 3 before selections are made.

johnw - suddenly mild again  - +10c  

[cycnich]

John
      I can recognise at least two and possibly three leaves there that are probally spp crassifolium and will be the progeny of plants from leonidi in the peloponnese. This will also apply to the pink flushed plants that you mention, the depth of pink can vary year to year and may be temperature related.

[Roma]

Lovely selection of Cyclamen hederifolium leaves, Pat and John.

I am very pleased my Cyclamen persicum have recovered from being frozen in the greenhouse last winter.  I do not think they were so far on when the frost hit before I had managed to get the gas heater lit.  I am not sure if the one on the front right is still alive but the one on the left is beginning to grow.
They were sown in January 1998 and are from Cyclamen Society collection 90432 from their expedition to Israel.

[johnw]

Pat -   Yes 6374 is a favourite.  But I am still reeling from your dark hederifolium and that stunning hederifolium CSE08020 ex Zakinthos Class D3 and a deserved Brian Mathew Trophy Winner, page 36 of the CS Journal.   They mention your hederifolium ssp. cressifolium ex CSE93159 with a pink blush but alas no photo. Was that it in Reply 288?

johnw

[cycnich]

John
        Yes it was. Pat

[Lesley Cox]

I am shocked into silence by all these Cyclamen pictures.

[Hans A.]

Wow, some terrific Cyclamen here!

I don't know what I did to my repotting mix last Spring but leaves have grown far too big and out of scale.  Perhaps it was the blood & bone meal. Here's rohlfsianum.  

Not sure if your C. rohlfsianum is out of scale - planted out in the ground some do not look much smaller here. Cannot remember if I have fed this plant ever.

[razvan chisu]

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[Thomas Huber]

Not sure if your C. rohlfsianum is out of scale - planted out in the ground some do not look much smaller here.
Cannot remember if I have feeded this plant ever.

Hans, perhaps you should ask Mike if he has 'fed' your plant 

[Hans A.]

Thomas, as you know Mica is a 'señorita' who never would do this, but I am not so sure about Hugo who behaves like a little pig sometimes... 

[Maggi Young]

Not sure if your C. rohlfsianum is out of scale - planted out in the ground some do not look much smaller here.
Cannot remember if I have feeded this plant ever.

Hans, perhaps you should ask Mike if he has 'fed' your plant  

Hubi! How could you think to blame those adorable little dogs?  

[Maggi Young]

I remember when I first saw Cyclamen rohlfsianum in the wild.... my mother kept saying how she couldn't believe that these huge leaves were from a cyclamen..... I was only a little girl and this was my very first experience of ANY cyclamen at all... so I was most impressed... but mostly by how pretty the leaves  were!