Cyclamen 2013

[krisderaeymaeker]

Cyclamen purpurascens
Cyclamen purpurascens album  -  one flower a couple of weeks ago.  It now has a few new leaves and I hope will have more flowers

Very nice Roma ! The album is great .
Here some spontaneous seedlings  in the garden ........ they show up on different places ...

[goofy]

Dieter This is not unusual I have a plant which is not showing at all yet

tks Ian,

YESY !!!
I found a wonderful tuber, 6cm diameterr.
with fat "dormant buds"

I MUST BE PATIENT...............   


Kris, nice flower shape and dark color on your  plants ............  :thumbsup:

[krisderaeymaeker]

Kris, nice flower shape and dark color on your  plants ............  :thumbsup:

Thanks Dieter ! The spontaneous seedlings grows better then al the others !

Did see the first flowers on different hederifoliums in the garden and also 1 mirabile starts to flower.
The season is almost there ....

[johnw]

The spontaneous seedlings grows better then al the others !

How true Kris, the ant seem to know better where they should be planted.  Here they come up in the lawn and under dwarf rhodos, so both alkaline and acid. 

Long ago the garden was over-run with C. hederifoliums self-sown.  The snowless dry winter of 1991 wiped most out.  The Cyclamen purpurascens  are much hardier, note the tubers sitting above ground.

johnw - getting much needed rain @ 18c.

[krisderaeymaeker]

How true Kris, the ant seem to know better where they should be planted.  Here they come up in the lawn and under dwarf rhodos, so both alkaline and acid. 
Long ago the garden was over-run with C. hederifoliums self-sown.  The snowless dry winter of 1991 wiped most out.  The Cyclamen purpurascens  are much hardier, note the tubers sitting above ground.
johnw - getting much needed rain @ 18c.

Hi John . Thanks for your comment and pictures  . It help to get the mistake  that's  say that pupurascens is not hardy  out of the world   
I was convinced that purpurascens is hardy a long time but it is even surprising that it is more hardy then good old hederifolium and the naked bulbs are also a bit of a surprise ....But we can learn from that ...

[Lori S.]

Cyclamen purpurascens is the only one I've found to be hardy here in zone 3... and the corms push out of the ground here too.  I've tried C. hederifolium and C. coum a few times with no over-wintering success at all.

[goofy]

hello friends,
one of my very best with a fantastic smell

Cyclamen purpurascens



and a surprise, just found at the "end of the garden"   

Cyclamen hederifolium 'White Cloud'


enjoy

[krisderaeymaeker]

Cyclamen purpurascens is the only one I've found to be hardy here in zone 3... and the corms push out of the ground here too.  I've tried C. hederifolium and C. coum a few times with no over-wintering success at all.

Thanks for the information Lori . I always tought that hederifolium and coum are the most hardy. Here both give no problems but wintertemperatures goes not more then 15 degrees below zero ....

[krisderaeymaeker]

hello friends,
one of my very best with a fantastic smell
Cyclamen purpurascens

and a surprise, just found at the "end of the garden"   
Cyclamen hederifolium 'White Cloud'

enjoy

Great to see such healthy and good flowering plants Dieter . 

[johnralphcarpenter]

Cyclamen hederifolium has started to flower here.

[David Nicholson]

Not sure why but my hederifolium in the garden don't seem to be as good this year, still, early days.

My first one of the season from the greenhouse, Cyclamen cilicium, a nice dark form given me by my friend Mike Quest.

[Mark Griffiths]

David, that is a lovely one!

[David Nicholson]

It is so Mark, and has a nice scent as well.

[Gerry Webster]

Cyclamen graecum

The first one to flower here - bang on time.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Not sure why but my hederifolium in the garden don't seem to be as good this year, still, early days.
My first one of the season from the greenhouse, Cyclamen cilicium, a nice dark form given me by my friend Mike Quest.

I like that one David . Nice flowers !