Cyclamen 2012

[Gerry Webster]

Cyclamen graecum

Top: the most floriferous plant I grow. Obtained many years ago from Tilebarn Nursery

Bottom: the plant with the largest flowers. Raised from seed collected in the Peloponnese by the late Erna & Ronald Frank.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely plants Gerry. My own graecum, all from seed from various sources and sown in 2008, are showing a little leaf, but no sign of any flowers at all.

[Gerry Webster]

Thanks David.
My own experience - though not extensive  - is that C. graecum is quite slow from seed. A good deal slower than C. coum for example

[Roma]

Well flowered graecums, Gerry.  The first few times I tried C. graecum here I didn't get flowers and thought it was not sunny enough.  A white flowered one from Paul Christian did quite well on an upstairs windowsill.  In 2003 and 2004 I sowed seed from the Cyclamen Society from wild plants collected on one of their expeditions.  I got a few flowers in 2009 and in 2010 two or three had 12 to 15 flowers.  I was hobbling around on elbow crutches in October 2010 so did not get too many pics of them flowering.  The gas heater did not get lit early enough and they got frozen.  When I repotted them last year I was surprised how many were still alive.  Unfortunately it was mostly the bigger ones which died.  They didn't do much last year but are coming in to growth now and I can see flower buds on at least one.   

[Roma]

Cyclamen hederifolium 'Red Sky'
Cyclamen rohlfsianum

[ArnoldT]

This one's a month earlier than last year.

Cyclamen cilicicum

[David Nicholson]

...... and yours is nearly a month later than mine Arnold

[Denney_m]

Some of you may know that the Cyclamen Society is jointly publishing a 'Big Book' with RBG Kew, to be called: 'Genus Cyclamen: Science, Cultivation, Art and Culture'.  This is just a note for anyone who has placed an advance order or is waiting for it to come out, to say that laying out the chapters is taking a little longer than expected and as a consequence it is now expected to be available in the U.K. late November/early December and in North America a few weeks later.

We're sorry for the delay but hope that it will be worth waiting for.

If anyone would like more information about the book, please ask...

Best wishes to all,

Martyn Denney

[Maggi Young]

Hello Martyn,
 Thanks for the update. 

[David Nicholson]

If anyone would like more information about the book, please ask...

Is the price known please?

[Hans J]

David ,

the price for members of Cyclamen Society is 60,00 GBP - for not memers 90,00 GBP
+ posting ( for each book ) : insice UK : 8,50
Europe 14,00
rest of the world 16,50

Hans

[Gerry Webster]

Amazon UK are offering it for £85.50 with free delivery in the UK.

[partisangardener]

Finally my foundling from Italy near the Bolsena lake has reached its maturity.
The corm is not round but shaped like an odd potatoe. Roots mainly from the bottom.
It flowers just now. Leafs usually very few, but growing to a great size, similar to C.repandum, very thick.
The rest is shown in the pictures. The flowers are >30 mm in diameter. Colour is about true to the photo. Always small leafs as sepals at the botom of the flower.
I don't believe that this could be an ordinary C.hederifolium, which grows abundantly there.
Any guess.
C. confusum maybe?

[partisangardener]

Cyclamen hederifolium can be very fast. This set was sown Feb. 2011. First flowers June 2012.
Seeds from the GdS Germany. Suposed Lysander form.
I am very pleased with this result.

[annew]

Any guess.
C. confusum maybe?

Well, I am confused. Very interesting.