Cyclamen 2012

[partisangardener]

I am pretty sure they will! 
Don't judge them by their leafs in the first two years. They even got better in the year after their second blooming.
I just checked my first picture with the speckled silver leaf. It looks a bit like ice crystals, probably the cause of this colouring?

[partisangardener]

Now two pictures of my narrow leaf selections. I have seen here more narrow ones,  maybe with their seeds there will be more variations.
First one is from Hansihoes strain. Second Green Ice silver-leaf.

[annew]

If I could only grow one species of plant, it would have to be Cyclamen hederifolium, for the sheer variety and long display of the leaves. Don't tell the daffodils. 

[Roma]

A later flowering Cyclamen mirabile and one of my favourite Cyclamen cilicium, a white with a pink nose.  It was grown from seed as 'Bowles' Variety'.  I also got a pure white as well as a few pinks and the leaves were good but not outstanding.  I think the name should be dropped as according to CGW no-one knows what the original looked like.
PS. I spotted the aphids when I put the picture on my computer but I'm not going out in the dark to squash them.  Hope I remember tomorrow     
 

[Cris]

Wow Roma, those leaves are fantastic!!!! Did you grow them from seed?


A curious form of set seeds...the leaf was on its way

[John85]

At garden centers there are plenty of cyclamens for sale that look like dwarf C.persicum.
What are they?Hybrids I guess but what is the cross?C.persicum X ?
Can they take some frost?

[Maggi Young]

At garden centers there are plenty of cyclamens for sale that look like dwarf C.persicum.
What are they?Hybrids I guess but what is the cross?C.persicum X ?
Can they take some frost?

I think they are just selected dwarf forms of persicum, John, not hybrids.
They cannot take much frost, in my experience, though some have found them to survive outside for a couple of years.

 See this old thread :
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=6025.0

[Gerdk]

Just a few cyclamen pics

Cyclamen (coum) elegans 2 x
Cyclamen cyprium with silver and dark leaves
and a very late Cyclamen purpurascens outside

Gerd

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Gerd, that is a lovely ssp. elegens.

My first Cyclamen coum of the season in the greenhouse although there are buds just about breaking in the garden. This one grown from seed (SRGC 1049/07) sown September 2008. Maybe Farrer was having a bad day when he wrote in "The English Rock Garden" 'In autumn appear the small rounded leaves, of a sullen and leathery dark-green, black and leaden in effect, and unlivened by the smallest touch of white.....' They cheer me up anyway!

[Mark Griffiths]

Nice elegans Gerd. I have a tuber that decided to take several (I think now 3) year's off. I have some Cyclamen Society seedlings that I have doubts about the accuracy of the labelling but have just also got some seed from a commercial source that I am sure are true.

The cyprium selections are very nice too.

David, Farrer was a bit of a strange duck to say the least. I actually quite like the plain leafed forms - they seem a little harder to find these days - I feel when in flower they make a better foil for the blooms.

[Gerry Webster]

Maybe Farrer was having a bad day when he wrote in "The English Rock Garden" 'In autumn appear the small rounded leaves, of a sullen and leathery dark-green, black and leaden in effect, and unlivened by the smallest touch of white.....'

Farrer is even more eloquent on Fritillaria:

“Very miffy or mimpish, or both and the family all round has a bad character........... not to mention that an enormous number have more or less stinking bells of dingy chocolate and greenish tones, which often appear transfigured by the enthusiasm of those who desire to get rid of them.”

[ashley]

Farrer is even more eloquent on Fritillaria:

“Very miffy or mimpish, or both and the family all round has a bad character........... not to mention that an enormous number have more or less stinking bells of dingy chocolate and greenish tones, which often appear transfigured by the enthusiasm of those who desire to get rid of them.”

Not acerbic anyway
I wonder what he thought of the white & green things, not to mention the excitement around them ...

[Gerdk]

David + Mark,
Thank you for kind comments!
@David: Your Cyclamen coum is soo early - here only a few buds are visible.
@Mark:  Here are flowers each year - but unlike with 'normal' C. coum never seeds.

Gerd

[krisderaeymaeker]

Just a few cyclamen pics
[Cyclamen cyprium with silver and dark leaves
Gerd

Hi Gerd ,maybe the best silver cyprium I ever have seen ! This is a real beauty ....If it makes seeds I keep myself recommanded....

[Gerdk]

....If it makes seeds I keep myself recommanded....

.... it seems it does -  noted your wish!

Gerd