Cyclamen 2013

[annew]

I like all the reds - but does anyone else agree with me that  SDIM5624rs looks like a Rory McEwan painting?

Just a lovely photo!

Yes it does! Except not enough empty space..
I've been considering using my electric toothbrush as a vibrating device (without the brush) to imitate the 'buzz' pollination that bees do on tomatoes, touching the end of the toothbrush holder to the stem, or maybe ovary. Maybe it might work on cyclamen?

[Maggi Young]

Great idea Anne - and cheaper than taking them for a drive.  Worth some experiments, I think.

[krisderaeymaeker]

  : How stunning those reds  .

Here the more usual hederifloiums ...

1/ Peter 's (Moore) hederifolium 'Silver Arrow ' 
2/ same but with pollinator 
3/ hederifolium from seed collected in Zakynthos
4/ seedling in the garden with very narrow and smal leaves  (the fallen leaves of the shrub are from Prunus 'Kojo-no-mai' )
5/more  hederifolium in the garden

[krisderaeymaeker]

Few other hederifolium in the garden ...

[krisderaeymaeker]

1/ Cyclamen rohlfsianum with more leaves and fewer flowers . 
2/ C. africanum 'Album ' 
3/ C. cilicium seedling in the rockgarden

[Mark Griffiths]

lovely pics Kris.

where did you get the C.africanum "album" from? I got some under that name from AGS seed some time back. Pretty sure they are just hederifolium but as they flower nicely I've kept them in the greenhouse.

[Mark Griffiths]

One of my favourite, the national flower of Cyprus(?), Cyclamen cyprium

[krisderaeymaeker]

lovely pics Kris.
where did you get the C.africanum "album" from? I got some under that name from AGS seed some time back. Pretty sure they are just hederifolium but as they flower nicely I've kept them in the greenhouse.

Thanks Mark ! This is the only white flowering one from a batch of seedlings of C. africanum .
The seeds came to me as Cyclamen africanum and they are given to me by Charlotte Jacobsen.Charlotte is a member of our society (VRV)and not unknown to some people of this forum.Maybe this is also hederifolium , who could tel ?

[krisderaeymaeker]

One of my favourite, the national flower of Cyprus(?), Cyclamen cyprium

One of my favourites to Mark ! Wil post some flowers later on ...

[krisderaeymaeker]

Cyclamen cyprium - first some leaves ...........

[krisderaeymaeker]

Cyclamen cyprium - some flowers ........

[Mark Griffiths]

very nice Kris. It's funny that after all the wonderful variety of patterning of the leaves sometimes plain leaved forms are nice. I have a number of different forms, I must remember to post some pics of the leaves. I've got some seedlings of a supposedly pink variety, I've had a few pinkish ones but never a fully pink one. Here's hoping!

[David Nicholson]

Cracking Cyclamen over the past week folks.

[Hans A.]

Cracking Cyclamen over the past week folks.

Cannot agrre more!

Two from here: Cyclamen persicum var. autumnale and a strange Cyclamen graecum.

[krisderaeymaeker]

and a strange Cyclamen graecum.

Oh yes indeed Hans ....Looks a bit like  the flowers from persicum with the leaves of graecum