Cyclamen 2012

[Roma]

Cyclamen coum - self sown in garden
Cyclamen coum sown in 2009

[Shadylanejewel]

Wonderful looking coum plants Roma.  Beautiful flowers and great leaf pattern.

I'm hoping with all the seed I planted this year, I'll finally have more flower colors than only dark pink.

This photo is the group of Cyclamen coum which are growing in a section of the garden which floods many times a year.

Julie

[Guff]

1-3 Coum and Crocus

[Shadylanejewel]

    Incredible display Guff!  Absolutely beautiful!

[Hans A.]

Some good flowering Cyclamen with sunshine - C. persicum and C. pseudibericum.

[David Nicholson]

Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum 'Pelops', bought last year. Does it look right please?

 

[Maggi Young]

Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum 'Pelops', bought last year. Does it look right please?

 

What's been chewing the flowers?

I think Cyclamen rhodium 'Pelops' is the accepted name now for this plant. One of the cycsperts will be along soon, I'm sure.....

[Melvyn Jope]

Hello David, the flowers on your plant looks right to me for Cyclamen rhodium subsp peloponnesiacum, the name Pelops used to be given to forms with very speckled leaves. In the wild plain green leaf forms are occasionally found but it is more usual to see some silvery spotting or a hastate pattern,on rare occasions completely silver leaves can be found. The problem with plants grown from seeds from a collection in cultivation is that the rhodium (repandum) group are very promiscuous so with uncontrolled pollination the offspring may not look like the parent plant.

[Lesley Cox]

David missed out on his elevenses Maggi.

[Roma]

Cyclamen persicum
Grown from Cyclamen Soc. seed sown in 1997.  The seed came from a plant collected in Israel during the Cyclamen Society 1990 expedition.
I had 6 plants till last winter.  They seemed ok in spite of being frozen last winter.  4 grew away very well but 2 of those started to lose leaves.  one has only a few leaves left the other has leaves and flowers but does not look as good as it did a few weeks ago.  The two in front look very good.

[Otto Fauser]

Fermi , here is my Cyc. graecum flowering in my much cooler garden than yours . -so not the abundance of blooms as in your garden

[David Nicholson]

Cyclamen rhodium ssp. peloponnesiacum 'Pelops', bought last year. Does it look right please?

 

What's been chewing the flowers?

Blerdy snail-it is no more!

[David Nicholson]

Hello David, the flowers on your plant looks right to me for Cyclamen rhodium subsp peloponnesiacum, the name Pelops used to be given to forms with very speckled leaves. In the wild plain green leaf forms are occasionally found but it is more usual to see some silvery spotting or a hastate pattern,on rare occasions completely silver leaves can be found. The problem with plants grown from seeds from a collection in cultivation is that the rhodium (repandum) group are very promiscuous so with uncontrolled pollination the offspring may not look like the parent plant.

Many thanks for that Melvin, I'll drop 'Pelops' from the label.

[John Aipassa]

Cyclamen coum Meaden's Crimson

A very dark magenta. The colour of the flowers on the photo doesn't do it justice. It is a nice very deep and dark colour in real life. When it has a backlit from the sun it glows spectacularly. The darkest coum I have seen so far.

[David Nicholson]

Very nice John. It doesn't seem to be as available as it should in the commercial market.