Cyclamen 2013

[Guff]

1-3 Coum and crocus bed

[Leena]

The coum and crocus bed is really really nice!
Is it in shade in the summer and what grows there later?

[David Nicholson]

Flowering for the first time, from seed (SRGC 07/8-1066) sown September 2008 Cyclamen creticum

[Mark Griffiths]

very nice David. I seem to have a large number of things that are either supposed to be balearicum or creticum but seem to sit somewhere between the two.

This is a pseudo-ibericum that's a little different - more a dusky purple than usual

[Anthony Darby]

Five years from seed. I wonder how long it will take my cyprium to flower? C. africanum was just over a year, and it looks as if there are flower buds on my graecum sown Sept. 2011.

[Mark Griffiths]

Anthony, I think cyprium is reasonably quick. But it's a plant that seems very variable in growth rate.

[SJW]

I seem to have a large number of things that are either supposed to be balearicum or creticum but seem to sit somewhere between the two

I have this labelled as Cyclamen creticum but the pink striations on the flowers, and perhaps the foliage, looks more like balearicum?

[fermi de Sousa]

Cyclamen mirabile ex Tilebarn Nicholas in a shade-house.
cheers
fermi

[Anthony Darby]

My Cyclamen mirabile is looking good, but no flowers yet. I love the forms with pink on the upper sides of the leaves.

[SJW]

Three different Cyclamen rhodium subsp. peloponnesiacum plants from the same seed parent (a Cyclamen Society expedition plant).

[Mark Griffiths]

I have this labelled as Cyclamen creticum but the pink striations on the flowers, and perhaps the foliage, looks more like balearicum?

I'd say that is balearicum or a hybrid of balearicum based on the veining at the tips of the petals.

[SJW]

I'd say that is balearicum or a hybrid of balearicum based on the veining at the tips of the petals.

Thanks, Mark, that's what I thought too. This repandum group could make Oholibah blush!

[Anthony Darby]

Three different Cyclamen rhodium subsp. peloponnesiacum plants from the same seed parent (a Cyclamen Society expedition plant).

Ooo, quite a variation! I have two tiny seedlings labelled Cyclamen peloponnesiacum ssp. rhodense and will be delighted what ever they look like.

[SJW]

Anthony, they say just as you learn how to grow a particular plant, you lose your last one . And I find the repandum group particularly easy to kill!

Some of the cyclamen in the greenhouse are starting to go over now. Here's three C. hederifolium (ex Zakynthos, probably subsp crassifolium) whose leaves are still looking OK.

[Anthony Darby]

I'm having to learn all over again. Plants that I could only dream about are thriving (my Narcissus viridiflorus from Bill Dijk had one flowering stem last year; this year I could have nine! It is in a pot outside.), and others are struggling. I was overrun with Cyclamen hederifolium in Dunblane, and even spread it around the neighbourhood, so we'll see how it does here. Cyclamen repandum came and went in Dunblane, but I'm hopeful it will do better here.