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Cyclamen - the bad news and the good news
On 2009-11-16 18:39:21 +0000, "Spider" said:
wrote in message ... In article , Spider wrote: Incidentally, I have also grown the hardy types - C. hederifoium and C.coum - from seed (intentionally, rather than by accident!) with great success. I have a terrific C.hederifolium with truly gorgeous leaves, and the tuber is now the size of a small saucer. Masses of flower. I can recommend it most enthusiastically to anyone who loves cyclamen, but resents the cost of a flowering-size tuber. Fresh seed is best, but I started with bought dried seed, so it is do-able. Oh, yes - and, if they like the position, they will naturalise into a carpet. I have such a carpet in a bed that is in the rain shadow of the eaves - few weeds grow, but the C. coum loves it. They will also grow under conifers, where few other things will. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Yes, I have found that, too, Nick. They're little treasures. They don't seem to take *too* long from seed to flowering size, either .. although there's only one or two flowers to start with. Quite enough to get one hooked, I find :~) Spider We have some under the big cedar tree towards the bottom of the garden. But others have put themselves whereever they feel like it and it's an absolute joy to come across a little stream of them tumbling down a bank, almost hidden from sight. They're absolute beauties. I went once to a Greek amphitheatre near Corinth - can't think of the name! - and we climbed to the top of the many ranks of stone seating, to har the remarkable acoustics from the stage. On our way up, right near the top was one little flower head, pushing its way up through the stones. I may have forgotten the name of the theatre but I've never forgotten that brave little flower. -- Sacha |
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Cyclamen - the bad news and the good news
"Sacha" wrote in message
... On 2009-11-16 18:39:21 +0000, "Spider" said: wrote in message ... In article , Spider wrote: Incidentally, I have also grown the hardy types - C. hederifoium and C.coum - from seed (intentionally, rather than by accident!) with great success. I have a terrific C.hederifolium with truly gorgeous leaves, and the tuber is now the size of a small saucer. Masses of flower. I can recommend it most enthusiastically to anyone who loves cyclamen, but resents the cost of a flowering-size tuber. Fresh seed is best, but I started with bought dried seed, so it is do-able. Oh, yes - and, if they like the position, they will naturalise into a carpet. I have such a carpet in a bed that is in the rain shadow of the eaves - few weeds grow, but the C. coum loves it. They will also grow under conifers, where few other things will. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Yes, I have found that, too, Nick. They're little treasures. They don't seem to take *too* long from seed to flowering size, either .. although there's only one or two flowers to start with. Quite enough to get one hooked, I find :~) Spider We have some under the big cedar tree towards the bottom of the garden. But others have put themselves whereever they feel like it and it's an absolute joy to come across a little stream of them tumbling down a bank, almost hidden from sight. They're absolute beauties. I went once to a Greek amphitheatre near Corinth - can't think of the name! - and we climbed to the top of the many ranks of stone seating, to har the remarkable acoustics from the stage. On our way up, right near the top was one little flower head, pushing its way up through the stones. I may have forgotten the name of the theatre but I've never forgotten that brave little flower. -- Sacha :~) Yes, it's amazing how plants do that. Aquilegias always take me back to my father's garden when I was little; daffodils to my grandfather's. Spider |
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Cyclamen - the bad news and the good news
On 2009-11-17 17:09:05 +0000, "Spider" said:
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2009-11-16 18:39:21 +0000, "Spider" said: wrote in message ... In article , Spider wrote: Incidentally, I have also grown the hardy types - C. hederifoium and C.coum - from seed (intentionally, rather than by accident!) with great success. I have a terrific C.hederifolium with truly gorgeous leaves, and the tuber is now the size of a small saucer. Masses of flower. I can recommend it most enthusiastically to anyone who loves cyclamen, but resents the cost of a flowering-size tuber. Fresh seed is best, but I started with bought dried seed, so it is do-able. Oh, yes - and, if they like the position, they will naturalise into a carpet. I have such a carpet in a bed that is in the rain shadow of the eaves - few weeds grow, but the C. coum loves it. They will also grow under conifers, where few other things will. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Yes, I have found that, too, Nick. They're little treasures. They don't seem to take *too* long from seed to flowering size, either .. although there's only one or two flowers to start with. Quite enough to get one hooked, I find :~) Spider We have some under the big cedar tree towards the bottom of the garden. But others have put themselves whereever they feel like it and it's an absolute joy to come across a little stream of them tumbling down a bank, almost hidden from sight. They're absolute beauties. I went once to a Greek amphitheatre near Corinth - can't think of the name! - and we climbed to the top of the many ranks of stone seating, to har the remarkable acoustics from the stage. On our way up, right near the top was one little flower head, pushing its way up through the stones. I may have forgotten the name of the theatre but I've never forgotten that brave little flower. -- Sacha :~) Yes, it's amazing how plants do that. Aquilegias always take me back to my father's garden when I was little; daffodils to my grandfather's. Spider Aubretia is grandpa's garden wall and my parents garden is - or was - the huge and very old mulberry tree that finally gave up and was blown down in a big storm one night. It was held together with iron bands! -- Sacha |
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Cyclamen - the bad news and the good news
Sacha wrote:
On 2009-11-16 18:39:21 +0000, "Spider" said: wrote in message ... In article , Spider wrote: Incidentally, I have also grown the hardy types - C. hederifoium and C.coum - from seed (intentionally, rather than by accident!) with great success. I have a terrific C.hederifolium with truly gorgeous leaves, and the tuber is now the size of a small saucer. Masses of flower. I can recommend it most enthusiastically to anyone who loves cyclamen, but resents the cost of a flowering-size tuber. Fresh seed is best, but I started with bought dried seed, so it is do-able. Oh, yes - and, if they like the position, they will naturalise into a carpet. I have such a carpet in a bed that is in the rain shadow of the eaves - few weeds grow, but the C. coum loves it. They will also grow under conifers, where few other things will. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Yes, I have found that, too, Nick. They're little treasures. They don't seem to take *too* long from seed to flowering size, either .. although there's only one or two flowers to start with. Quite enough to get one hooked, I find :~) Spider We have some under the big cedar tree towards the bottom of the garden. But others have put themselves whereever they feel like it and it's an absolute joy to come across a little stream of them tumbling down a bank, almost hidden from sight. They're absolute beauties. I went once to a Greek amphitheatre near Corinth - can't think of the name! - and we climbed to the top of the many ranks of stone seating, to har the remarkable acoustics from the stage. On our way up, right near the top was one little flower head, pushing its way up through the stones. I may have forgotten the name of the theatre but I've never forgotten that brave little flower. probably Epidaurus http://www.greeklandscapes.com/greece/epidaurus.html pedant not actually an AMPHItheatre /pedant agree cyclamen are marvellous Paul -- CTC Right to Ride Rep. for Richmond upon Thames |
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Cyclamen - the bad news and the good news
On 2009-11-17 22:40:52 +0000, Paul Luton said:
Sacha wrote: On 2009-11-16 18:39:21 +0000, "Spider" said: wrote in message ... In article , Spider wrote: Incidentally, I have also grown the hardy types - C. hederifoium and C.coum - from seed (intentionally, rather than by accident!) with great success. I have a terrific C.hederifolium with truly gorgeous leaves, and the tuber is now the size of a small saucer. Masses of flower. I can recommend it most enthusiastically to anyone who loves cyclamen, but resents the cost of a flowering-size tuber. Fresh seed is best, but I started with bought dried seed, so it is do-able. Oh, yes - and, if they like the position, they will naturalise into a carpet. I have such a carpet in a bed that is in the rain shadow of the eaves - few weeds grow, but the C. coum loves it. They will also grow under conifers, where few other things will. Regards, Nick Maclaren. Yes, I have found that, too, Nick. They're little treasures. They don't seem to take *too* long from seed to flowering size, either .. although there's only one or two flowers to start with. Quite enough to get one hooked, I find :~) Spider We have some under the big cedar tree towards the bottom of the garden. But others have put themselves whereever they feel like it and it's an absolute joy to come across a little stream of them tumbling down a bank, almost hidden from sight. They're absolute beauties. I went once to a Greek amphitheatre near Corinth - can't think of the name! - and we climbed to the top of the many ranks of stone seating, to har the remarkable acoustics from the stage. On our way up, right near the top was one little flower head, pushing its way up through the stones. I may have forgotten the name of the theatre but I've never forgotten that brave little flower. probably Epidaurus http://www.greeklandscapes.com/greece/epidaurus.html pedant not actually an AMPHItheatre /pedant Pedant or not, you hit the spot. Thank you. I kept thinking Ephesus and knowing it was the wrong place in the wrong country! I'll go away and look up aphitheatre......... ;-) I do recall that at a particular spot on the stage at Epidavros there is an inset plate which marks the place from where the voice carries best, up and out into the auditorium. It was superb. The backdrop is mind blowing. agree cyclamen are marvellous Paul 'Gallant' is the word that seems to spring to my mind for them, perhaps because of that moment in Greece. -- Sacha |
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