Cyclamen 2016

Cyclamen hederifolium also started that week, the first one being a white form

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fermi

Yesterday we found the first Cyclamen graecum in bloom

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At our AGS Vic Group meeting on Saturday one of our members, Viv, brought some of her wonderful plants including Cyclamen colchicum

Does anyone else think that it has a confusing name?

She also had some small pots of Cyclamen intaminatum

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At our March meeting another member, Jon, brought a few cyclamen,including CC hederifolium, purpurascens, mirabile

A blurry pic of Jon's Cyclamen mirabile

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Yesterday (February 17) we found the first Cyclamen graecum in bloom

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A month later and that cyclamen is still flowering,

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More Cyclamen hederifolium, white

and pink 

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The pale pink Cyclamen graecum is still flowering more than 7 weeks after the first flower was found,

and in another pat of the garden the only white flowering one that I have has just started to flower

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In 2005 I got seed from the AGS Seedex of Cyclamen mirabile ex 'Tilebarn Nicholas'; here are some of the original seedlings showing some variation with a couple close to the original,

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Really nice, Fermi.  None of my seedling C. mirabile have come close to that pink leaf.

...Claire

Hi Claire,

I presume that 'Tilebarn Nicholas' was a selection with strong pink coloration and that seedlings from it will be variable. With most cyclamen "strains" the preferred technique should be to grow a number of seedlings and rogue out the ones which don't fit the description! Unfortunately we have retailers who simply sell all the seedlings from a named form as the named plant without checking that they are true to form.

I would say that only 50% of the seedlings I raised have enough pink to warrant them being distinct,

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fermi