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The season has made a start here in the UK with hederfolium in the open garden. Mine don't seem to be as good as they were last year but it's early days yet. My first in the greenhouse is Cyclamen cilicium, this one a rather nice darker form with a lovely scent.
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Mark McDonough
Lovely start to the season
Thu, 08/29/2013 - 1:21pmLovely start to the season David. I must try again with hederifolium, was given a number of forms about 8-9 years ago, and they eventually dwindled away. The only one that really likes it in my garden is purpurascens, which starts blooming in July here, although I heard from a friend nearby that her purpurascens started flowering only just recently. Cyclamen cilicicum is also one that I had once, persisted for 5 years or so, never increased, and then disappeared one year. I think I lose them from drought, fortunately C. purpurascens tolerates drought conditions well enough and is seeding around too.
PS: two copies of this topic appeared, I deleted one before we started getting responses to both. :-)
deesen (not verified)
Mark McD wrote:
Fri, 08/30/2013 - 3:08am[quote=Mark McD]
PS: two copies of this topic appeared, I deleted one before we started getting responses to both. :-)
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Sorry Mark, I've got the hang of posting one picture but don't seem to have gathered the art of putting two in the same post.
Mark McDonough
No problem David, it was easy
Fri, 08/30/2013 - 4:20amNo problem David, it was easy to take care of. Soon we will be drafting detailed directions on how to post multiple photos.
Ran outside after work to photograph my silver-leaf forms of C. purpurascens, but since it was close to dusk, and dark and misty outside, the images came out badly, will try again today.
deesen (not verified)
Here's Cyclamen mirabile full
Mon, 09/02/2013 - 11:56amHere's Cyclamen mirabile full of charm and all of it's parts completely in scale.
deesen (not verified)
.... and thanks to Mark's
Mon, 09/02/2013 - 11:58am.... and thanks to Mark's guidance all pictures present and correct.
Richard T. Rodich
Really graceful "butterflies"
Thu, 08/29/2013 - 8:41pmReally graceful "butterflies", David!
Our Chapter August plant sale was a a member's home. She grows cyclamen expertly. (She would say they grow expertly for her.) She grows hederifolium, but mostly purpurascens forms, and donated some to the sale. I am a happy purchaser of one whose parentage that can be traced back to the Lake Bled area in Slovenia.
Richard T. Rodich
The delicate veining on the
Mon, 09/02/2013 - 3:28pmThe delicate veining on the petals is really nice.
Is that just one plant in the pot?
I don't even know...... do cyclamen tubers ever divide or produce offsets?
Lori S. (not verified)
Good question, Rick. I await
Mon, 09/02/2013 - 6:57pmGood question, Rick. I await an answer.
This thread gives me a chance to show these same old plants of Cyclamen purpurascens YET AGAIN (where's that eye-rolling emoticon when you need it?)... needless to say, I am inordinately pleased that they have hung around since they were grown from seed in 2004! Note the seedling of the silver-leaved plant in the first photo, and some seedlings of the green-leaved one in the third photo - there are more seedlings which I should dig up and move around to what I hope would be safe places. The second plant has been heaving its large corm out of the ground the last couple of years (and looked quite diminished this spring as a result, I imagine) so I keep replanting it, as I suspect this is not such a brilliant thing to do in this climate.
Lovely fragrance!
deesen (not verified)
Yes, the pot had just one
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 11:36amYes, the pot had just one tuber. They don't divide themselves but they can be divided by cutting the tuber into pieces each with a growing point. It's a bit risky and I've never had sufficient tubers to risk trying to divide one but friends have tried with only limited success-many divisions were destroyed by fungus.
Some species sometimes produce long twiggy extensions growing from the tuber which have a growing point at the end (called floral trunks!). These can be cut off and treated as cuttings. None of mine have ever produced any.
Trond Hoy
The Cyclamen season has just
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 11:57amThe Cyclamen season has just started here, so nice to see your plants Lori and David! Mine have only produced leaves so far.
I have never bothered dividing corms as they are very easy from seed.
Richard T. Rodich
deesen wrote:
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 6:13pm[quote=deesen]
Yes, the pot had just one tuber.
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So all the vegetation all around in that pot originates from the one centrally located growing point at the top of the tuber?
Richard T. Rodich
I think I found the answer to
Tue, 09/03/2013 - 6:38pmI think I found the answer to that. If I am not mistaken, this pic on the SRGC forum shows multiple growing points scattered on the same tuber.
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=9948.0;attach=410084;image
Tony Willis (not verified)
Cyclamen pseudibericum forma
Tue, 01/28/2014 - 12:15pmCyclamen pseudibericum forma roseum from SE Turkey
Richard T. Rodich
Interesting purple markings
Tue, 01/28/2014 - 9:44pmInteresting purple markings on hat one.
I like it!
deesen (not verified)
Thought you might like to see
Tue, 02/25/2014 - 5:38amThought you might like to see a few Cyclamen coum pictures from my last visit to Killerton House on the outskirts of Exeter here in Devon? The pictures were taken on 16 February.
Trond Hoy
Yes of course I am interested
Tue, 02/25/2014 - 11:49amYes of course I am interested!
Where I am now it is 1 m snow and not a single flower to beheld. It is unfortunately mild and foggy so it is not much skiing either.
Richard T. Rodich
That's a LOT of cyclamen!
Tue, 02/25/2014 - 1:39pmThat's a LOT of cyclamen! There is no where to step without damaging them!
.Was there much variation?
deesen (not verified)
Given the numbers Rick it
Thu, 02/27/2014 - 7:20amGiven the numbers Rick it would have been odd not to see a variation and there were shades of pink as well as magenta but I didn't see any albinos.
Fermi de Sousa
Our first Cyclamen for the
Wed, 03/12/2014 - 1:30amOur first Cyclamen for the year is Cyclamen graecum in our Rock Garden,
cheers
fermi
Fermi de Sousa
That mid-pink Cyclamen
Sat, 04/05/2014 - 6:41amThat mid-pink Cyclamen graecum put on a lot more flower later and a couple of other paler pink ones also joined in!
cheers
fermi
Fermi de Sousa
In the Shade-house Cyclamen
Sat, 04/05/2014 - 6:45amIn the Shade-house Cyclamen mirabile (ex Tilebarn Nicholas) has been flowering,
cheers
fermi
Toole (not verified)
Fermi wrote:
Sat, 04/05/2014 - 1:43pm[quote=Fermi]
In the Shade-house Cyclamen mirabile (ex Tilebarn Nicholas) has been flowering,
cheers
fermi
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Lucky you Fermi .I have a good sized plant that has refused to flower or produce leaves for the past 3 maybe 4 seasons.........(
) Probably needs releasing from it's pot 
.In the meantime I'll just have to currently enjoy the yummy foliage of a small seedling ....... 
Cheers Dave.
Fermi de Sousa
Yes, Dave,
Tue, 04/08/2014 - 1:03amYes, Dave,
the foliage is probably one of the best things about this species!
Here's the white form of Cyclamen graecum in the garden,
cheers
fermi