Cyclamen 2012

[Shadylanejewel]

John - Do you know if the seedlings come fairly true to type?  What a beautiful deep rich color!

[John Aipassa]

Julie,

I have a several corms of Meaden's Crimson growing on different patches of the garden. All are raised from seed. Not by me, but from a specialist Cyclamen nursery here in The Netherlands: Green Ice Nursery  www.bravenboer.tk. They sell corms and seeds of it as well as many other nice colour forms but also many other species. Outside the EU they only sell seeds. I have been at their place two weeks ago. What a great sight to see hundreds and hundres of all kinds of colours and shades of Cyclamen. Took some very nice scented white coum with me that time too.

If I can be of some help with them just ask. I am going to visit them at least two or three times this year for different species when flowering.

[Maggi Young]

Looks like Green Ice Nursery are going to be at the Spring Weekend in Utrecht...
17 en 18 maart, Bollendagen Botanische Tuinen Utrecht
http://www.uu.nl/NL/BotanischeTuinen/actueel/Pages/Voorjaarsweekend.aspx   ..... anyone going to be there?

I'd be most grateful to buy a couple of those C. coum Meaden's Crimson if possible ? Not to mention scented whites.....  

[John Aipassa]

Looks like Green Ice Nursery are going to be at the Spring Weekend in Utrecht...
17 en 18 maart, Bollendagen Botanische Tuinen Utrecht
http://www.uu.nl/NL/BotanischeTuinen/actueel/Pages/Voorjaarsweekend.aspx   ..... anyone going to be there?

I'd be most grateful to buy a couple of those C. coum Meaden's Crimson if possible ? Not to mention scented whites.....  

Maggi,

Unfortunately I am not able to make a visit, but I will be happy to make a phone call and ask them if they reserve some for you. He has only a few crates left of Meaden's Crimson this year when I visited him. They are selling real fast at these events. He does send plants to the UK though. I can send them for you too if you want? It is just an hour drive for me, so I will pick them up and visit some other nice nurseries nearby. You'll get a discount if the plants are to be picked up. I believe that is something a Scots(wo)man is always happy to hear........ like the Dutch

Saw an awesome even darker purpurascens blooming really glooming in a beautiful way between all these other flowering cyclamen in his glass house two weeks ago . He used it for propagation purposes. This summer these purpurascens will become available when flowering so I will certainly make a visit at least this summer again and pick some nice dark ones myself  .

[Maggi Young]

John, I'll be in touch, thank you. 

[Paul T]

That is a great colour for a coum, John.  And given how hard it is to photograph that sort of colour, I can only imagine how intense it is in person.

Thanks.

[fermi de Sousa]

Cyclamen mirabile is now in bloom in our shade-house.


Looking a bit startled in this shot!
cheers
fermi

[John Aipassa]

Here is coum, a white scented form having a delicate but lovely smell.

[Mark Griffiths]

I'd appreciate an id on this one.

It came from AGS seed "C.creticum". I'm just not sure. Over the years I've sown alot of C.balearicum or C.creticum and what comes up seems to be somewhere between.

From the Cyclamen Society expedition seed C.creticum comes up as generally small, with sharply toothed leaves and small pure white flowers.

From "back in the day" I remember C.balearicum as having big blue green leaves with an overal wash of silver, and small white flowers with pink veining at the tips. But from seeing the old leaves on plants in Majorca I know that the leaves in the wild vary. I still think that the leaves are generally rounded, no sharp teeth.

Is that still the accepted difference between the two?

[Shadylanejewel]

Bought this Cyclamen peloponnesiacum earlier this year when it was dormant.

Hoping I can keep it alive as I really like it.   

[fermi de Sousa]

A couple more Cyclamen graecum in the garden; the first has nicely marked foliage and came from the NARGS Sdx noted as having "good foliage" - donated by Ellen Hornig.
cheers
fermi

[ian mcenery]

On this forum you can  see spring and autumn types in flower at the same time a real bonus

Here is one raised from Cyclamen society seed

C X sandersii (balearicum X repandum)

[Roma]

The Cyclamen which I have labelled variously repandum, peloponnesiacum, rhodium or combinations of these names depending when the seed was acquired, were not watered before the very cold weather started in 2010 and produced about half a dozen leaves and flowers between them.  The tubers of most were still quite sound and they are making up for it this year

Cyclamen repandum
Cyclamen persicum

[Guff]

Coum and crocus mixed bed pictures I didn't get around to posting.

1-8 Coum and Crocus

[Guff]

1-8 Coum and Crocus