Cyclamen 2013

[Shadylanejewel]

Melvyn, the USA based grower of the plant in question grew her plant from seed.....

Hello David and Melvyn,

I am the USA based grower (aka forumist on NARGS) and thank you very much for the help with my seed grown Cyclamen hederifolium ex "Ian White form".  I will post another photo of the leaves when they are more fully developed.   

[Alan_b]

can anyone tell me please if the Jill White, based in Essex, (and included on the Society's "Sources of Plants and Seeds" page) is still in business?

I don't know the answer to your question David, but the listing for Jill White here http://www.thegardeningwebsite.co.uk/jill-white-speciality-cyclamen-species-i469.html includes her telephone number.

[David Nicholson]

Hello David and Melvyn,

I am the USA based grower (aka forumist on NARGS) and thank you very much for the help with my seed grown Cyclamen hederifolium ex "Ian White form".  I will post another photo of the leaves when they are more fully developed.   

Ah Julie, 'tis a very small world

[David Nicholson]

I don't know the answer to your question David, but the listing for Jill White here http://www.thegardeningwebsite.co.uk/jill-white-speciality-cyclamen-species-i469.html includes her telephone number.

Many thanks for that Alan but if there is anyone who can let me know if Jill White is still in business and if not I need not contact her by phone.

[David Nicholson]

Here's Cyclamen cyprium (ex 'ES') from seed (kindly sent to me by Tony Willis in 2009) sown October 2009 and flowering for the first time. I don't have 'ES' proper so can't say how close mine is to the original. Maybe others have it. Lovely scented form too.

[SJW]

A few shots of cyclamen leaves in the greenhouse today: purpurascens, rohlfsianum, coum, graecum.

[Maggi Young]

A few shots of cyclamen leaves in the greenhouse today: purpurascens, rohlfsianum, coum, graecum.

And every one of them pristine!

[Mark Griffiths]

David, I think not all ES are the same.

The picture on the Cyclamen society site is like this

http://www.cyclamen.org/cyprium_set.html


the picture on my site is this

http://markgriffiths.org/inspiringplants/cyclamen/images/cycamen_cyprium_es_leaves_jan2006.jpg

this was derived from a plant I got from Peter Moore - the diference as far as I know is that it has leaf spotting, streaks in cream rather than the normal pattern.

Yours seems to be intermediate.

[Mark Griffiths]

 Very nice Steve, how are you growing the purpurascens? Frame or greenhouse or something else? How much sun?

[SJW]

And every one of them pristine!

Thanks, Maggi, but you should see the ones I choose not photograph!

Mark - my best purpurascens plants and seedlings stay in the shaded part of the greenhouse most of the year, although they can take more of the autumn/winter/spring sun if the surrounding air isn't too warm. But they really resent it when the greenhouse heats up on sunny days. I don't plunge, so can move the pots around - outside or on the floor/under the staging - on sunny days in spring . Between June and August, while they could go outside in a sheltered, part-shaded spot (and all my garden pests are forming an orderly queue as I type), I move them into a cooler shed which has a window and some light from above. They seem OK and don't etiolate too much so they do get sufficient light, I think. They also need moist compost year-round. I was away for three weeks this summer and stood the pots on capillary matting resting on a water reservoir tray and that worked well - no casualties anyway!   

[SJW]

Some more leaves...

[SJW]

Flowering plants of cilicium, intaminatum, mirabile, purpurascens and rohlfsianum.

[Shadylanejewel]

  Steve 

I agree completely with Maggi.  Stunning perfection every single one!

[David Nicholson]

I agree too. Do you show your plants Steve?

[Luc Gilgemyn]

A fantastic collection Steve !!