Cyclamen 2011

[Thomas Huber]

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... 

Uuuups, my deepest excuses to señorita Mica 
Sorry, I can't remember we talked about that theme,
and I didn't check the 'fact's' on my last visit 
but she really made a fabulous hike with the Hubi's 

[Hans A.]

For not being completly OT - here a picture of the only area of a mountain tour where we found a few plants of Cyclamen balearicum  in october- it was very early for this species. (also on this picture a young Hubi and Mica)

[Gerdk]

Here are a very early Cyclamen (coum) elegans and an autumn flowering persicum -
(with thanks to the donor)

Gerd

[partisangardener]

I have not looked into this thread for almost a year.
This year I have been to Italy in May to look for repandum. Some were still in flower. The leafs were unusually large. The C. hederifolium from the same habitat had already lost their leafs.
One exceptionally large,  I took a picture with a 1 Euro coin to compare. (2,3 cm) I think it was even bigger than the C. rohlfsianum shown here. It looked like some kind of Petasites
But all adult plants had much bigger leafs than all C. hederifolium I have seen yet.

[udo]

since June in flower, Cyclamen purpurascens silverleaf,
to time on a window inside

[johnw]

Cyclamen kuznetzovii, my sole survivor has finally flowered and I am decidedly underwhelmed.  It measures but 3/16" across and less high, worse it only has 2 petals.  As luck would have it is flowering next to a poor flowered C. purpurascens which has an unusual box-shaped flowered measuring only 1/2" wide and high.   Hopefully next year the kuznetzovii will straighten itself out.   johnw

My assessment of kuznetzovii was indeed premature.  It is in flower again at the moment with 10 flowers. It has gained strength, the leaves are large and the flowers are 4 petalled and of a very generous size. The apical makings are white at the tip, dark purple blotch fading to light purple.  This is the sole seedling from a sowing on 17 November 2008 from the Cyclamen Society.  It is either very slow-growing  - coum can be flowered in a year or so from seed - or I have been far too cautious with it.  Looks very promising and hopefully it will be hardy outdoors.

johnw - -2c and sunny   

[Roma]

I still have flowers on several plants of Cyclamen purpurascens, but not as many on one plant as you have ,Dirk.
Also flowering in the glasshouse are Cyclamen alpinum, C. coum, C elegans, C. parviflorum, C. x wellensiekii, C pseudubericum, C libanoticum and C. persicum.
Cyclamen coum is flowering outside.
I only have one (quite old) tuber of Cyclamen libanoticum which seems very hardy.  It survived last winter's big freeze when the temperature dropped before I got the gas fire lit.  It usually produces flowers with 6 or 7 petals.  I'm not sure if this is genetic or cultural.  I sowed some seed earlier this year and have a number of seedlings coming along so it will be interesting to see how they turn out

[Tony Willis]

some in flower now

Cyclamen pseudibericum
Cyclamen alpinum

[Mark Griffiths]

Lovely plants all.

This one is a bit of a disappointment - it came as C. elegans from the Cyclamen Society - the leaves look like it but the flowers don't. Maybe C. coum causcasicum?

[Lesley Cox]

I was very happy earlier in the week, while weeding and sorting some bulb pots, to find a cluster of fat seed pods on the top of a pot of C. libanoticum. It hasn't done that for me before.

[Anthony Darby]

Maybe things are starting to look up Lesley?

[Lesley Cox]

Dear God, I hope so. Poor Chch, another battering last night.

[Maggi Young]

Dear God, I hope so. Poor Chch, another battering last night.

More trouble for those poor folk, will it never end?
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake/news/article.cfm?c_id=1502981&objectid=10776300