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Cyclamen graecum in a raised bed in the garden. This used to be inside a greenhouse where there have been impressive displays of flower in the past. Few last year though and I had not expected any this autumn, this cyclamen has only flowered once (one flower) outside here in the past. After such a cool, wet summer how come almost all the plants have at least one flower? We did have almost a week of temperatures around 30C at the end of July, perhaps this was enough to trigger flowering.Proof of these being garden plants are the dandelions with the white cyclamen!
Kris I think you are right about the amount of variation in Cyclamen graecum ssp graecum growing on the Rhodopou peninsular, variation in leaf and flower. When I first visited the peninsular in 1990 I was amazed to see so many 'silver' leafed plants and on subsequent visits saw one or two plants with pure white flowers. The other Cretan form , ssp candicum is not present there, or perhaps I should say if it is there I couldnt find it.
Hello Kris, my experience with Cyclamen graecum ssp candicum is mainly at Platanias, Malaxa and the Omalos but it does grow in many other places on the island as does C.graecum ssp graecum, not just on the Rhodopou and Spilia.Two species that have grown well for me this year are C.colchicum and C.purperascens album, maybe because of all the rain and cloudy days.
It doesn't look as if I'm going to get flowers on my Cyclamen graecum this year but, I have foliage:-C. graecum 1- grown from seed sown 08/09/2008 from a Tony Willis collection from Crete.2-Another from the same collection.3- grown from seed kindly sent to me by Paul Tyreman and this is a graecum white form.
