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Janet Galpin and Oliver Patterson writes:
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| Hang on. WHICH cyclamen? He could well be talking about C. persicum,
| which might survive outside where you are but wouldn't have an earthly
| here. C. coum does fine, in the rain shadow of a tree or house, and
| C. hederifolium might well, too.
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| [ To Peter Donovan: the large flowered cyclamen that you grow indoors
| are C. persicum. Small ones can be almost anything. ]
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| Well not if they've been flowering through the winter. They would have
| to be C. coum, wouldn't they? C. hederifolium stopped flowering some
| time ago and so have most of the other hardy ones like C. mirabile. .
| Unless, of course, they're C. persicum in a warm sheltered spot.

Unless they had been grown under artificial conditions for the
Christmas market. There were a fair number of small flowered
cyclamen in my local garden centre then, and it was unclear what
they were.


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