Cyclamen 2012

[Melvyn Jope]

Hello Jo,

I think I might be able to help you with your request for C.balearicum locations. I went to Cevennes in early May eleven years ago and it was in full flower... perhaps your visit is a bit too early to see it?
If you are going to the Galanthus gala I will pass info to you there, otherwise send me a pm.

Best wishes for success.

[Natalia]

And at us it is cold, and cyclamens blossom only in winter gardens.

[Robert G]

Natalia,

Your photo is tempting me to remove the 30cm of snow covering my cyclamen to check for flowers...it would have to be done in the dark too.

Robert

[Natalia]

Robert, we more 60 cm a snow cover... But the under snow earth soft, not frozen...
I hope that my cyclamens in garden  is good under such "blanket".

[ChrisB]

I posted this pic elsewhere, but thought fans of cyclamen might enjoy it.  Its blooming in my garden at the moment.  Its a much more vivid pink/mauve than in the photo, but it gives you an idea of how nice it is.

[Shadylanejewel]

Natalia - such a splendid color on your purpurascens. 

ChrisB - Thank you for sharing your beautiful coum.  What type of lighting conditions produce such a considerable amount of blossoms?

[ChrisB]

Its just one corm.  Its in the shade of our house during Dec/Jan but gets quite a lot of daylight the rest of the year.  Its growing on top of turned over turf topped with sand and then gravel.  Our soil is very sandy and free draining.

[Martin Baxendale]

I posted this pic elsewhere, but thought fans of cyclamen might enjoy it.  Its blooming in my garden at the moment.  Its a much more vivid pink/mauve than in the photo, but it gives you an idea of how nice it is.

Wow! That's free-flowering!! If you have any spare seed later in the year I'd love to see if its offspring turn out to be equally splendiferous 

[Shadylanejewel]

Its growing on top of turned over turf topped with sand and then gravel.

  Chris - as soon as we get a break in the weather, I'll be turning some turf and bringing in sand and gravel!

Looks like there are quite a few offspring in the picture so it must set seed quite well.

[Roma]

Super coum, Chris.  I also find it grows better outside than in pots, though my best plants have been self-sown rather than planted.   My best one is in grass.  I don't know how many tubers are there as the flowers are all the same but there are different leaves.  I have shown this already in the Moan, Moan, Moan thread.  It was eaten by deer.

[Roma]

Flowering in the greenhouse

Cyclamen alpinum (2)
Cyclamen pseudibericum
Cyclamen libanoticum

[ChrisB]

Lovely clumps Roma.  Guess your horses are not tempted to eat them eh?

Martin, I'll try to remember to take seed.  The first corm came from David Boyd, who has won many a prize at shows with his cyclamen before he gave them up.  He sold huge pans of them to us as seedlings and I put them in the garden all over the place.  This clump has flowered better this year than ever before.  I swear its the snow last winter that did it for them.

[Natalia]

Roma, I sympathize with yours Cyclamen...

But as your plants in the closed ground are fine!

[Lesley Cox]

Very pleased to pick some seed pods off Cyc. libanoticum yesterday. It always flowers well but I've not had seed before. I think something eats them.

[ArnoldT]

Lesley:

Ants.

myrmecochory