Cyclamen

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Fermi

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Re: Cyclamen
« Reply #300 on: February 23, 2020, 07:14:19 AM »
The first for the year is Cyclamen graecum in the rock garden,
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« Reply #301 on: February 23, 2020, 11:53:46 AM »
While I was in the UK over Christmas I saw this cyclamen plant in with hundreds of other more typical looking cyclamens. It was labelled as Cyclamen hederifolium. Trying to find which variety on the internet, I came across 'Silver Cloud' but all the photos of that show a more pointed leaf. I have no idea of the flower colour yet and it may not flower at all this year given that the corm is little bigger than a pea. Amazing how a corm that size can produce such big leaves
I have a small garden in Rome, Italy. Some open soil, some concrete, some paved. Temperatures in winter occasionally down to 0°C. Summer temperatures up to 40°C in the shade. There are never watering restrictions but, of course, there is little natural water for much of June, July and August.

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« Reply #302 on: February 24, 2020, 12:47:48 AM »
I have a Cyclamen coum a metre or less away from a Cyclamen hederifolium. The C coum has been nibbled but the C hederifolium hasn't, apart from one leaf, which has 3 tiny holes. I think I would go for the C coum if I were a snail. It looks much tastier than the C hederifolium, wouldn't you agree?
I have a small garden in Rome, Italy. Some open soil, some concrete, some paved. Temperatures in winter occasionally down to 0°C. Summer temperatures up to 40°C in the shade. There are never watering restrictions but, of course, there is little natural water for much of June, July and August.

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« Reply #303 on: February 25, 2020, 01:10:25 PM »
Another cyclamen in flower today (I'm sure there were no flowers open yesterday!); this Cyclamen rohlfsianum is a couple of weeks ahead of last year
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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Re: Cyclamen
« Reply #304 on: February 26, 2020, 09:05:38 AM »
The unusually short petals makes them seem even more pointed - a very pretty effect!
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Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society

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« Reply #305 on: February 27, 2020, 11:23:41 AM »
The unusually short petals makes them seem even more pointed - a very pretty effect!
Hi Alisdair,
I haven't grown any other Cyclamen rohlfsianum so didn't realise its petals were particularly short!
Here's the white form of Cyclamen graecum
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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« Reply #306 on: February 28, 2020, 09:25:45 AM »
What's that you've got your Cyclamen graecum growing through, Fermi?
Alisdair Aird
Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society

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« Reply #307 on: February 28, 2020, 11:19:55 AM »
Hi Alisdair

It looks like a plant I have experimented with a couple of times, Dymondia margaretae. I'm not sure why it hasn't taken for me. Maybe because the plants weren't able to settle in before the heat of summer? Or maybe I watered them too much? I might try again as it is sometimes available at plant fairs here in Italy.
I have a small garden in Rome, Italy. Some open soil, some concrete, some paved. Temperatures in winter occasionally down to 0°C. Summer temperatures up to 40°C in the shade. There are never watering restrictions but, of course, there is little natural water for much of June, July and August.

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« Reply #308 on: February 29, 2020, 01:15:57 PM »
David is correct. It's a plant which we have in a couple of places as it does well in our conditions. It's quite a dense ground-cover but allows some bulbs to come through,
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
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« Reply #309 on: October 26, 2020, 01:35:29 PM »
Excuse the poor quality photo but this is our first Cyclamen cyprium of the season. Note the distinct 'M' at the base of the petals.
Cyprus Branch Head. Gardens in a field 40 m above sea level with reasonably fertile clay soil.
"Aphrodite emerged from the sea and came ashore and at her feet all manner of plants sprang forth" John Deacon (13thC AD)

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« Reply #310 on: August 30, 2021, 06:57:05 AM »
Cyclamen persicum looking like they have settled in
Two years on the Cyclamen persicum are still doing well in a couple of places in the garden under deciduous trees       
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Mr F de Sousa, Central Victoria, Australia
member of AGS, SRGC, NARGS
working as a physio to support my gardening habit!