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Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 05:38 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

It's been so long since I had a chance to get back to gardenbuddies
... I've forgotten how to do everything.

Here are two photos taken June 26, 2006 of the first cyclamen to bloom from Tim's seed.
It's C. purpurascens "Silver leaf".





On July 19, 2006, I took the following photo of the seedpod:



One of the very few things that went right this summer.
Thanks again, Tim.

Now I must find time to read the GB forums and catch up on what's been happening here.

Anne, Washington State, Zone 5
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Posted on Wednesday, August 23, 2006 - 08:27 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Oh, my goodness Anne, I don't know what is more eventful, you popping in or your cyclamen having bloomed and setting seed!

It's such a nice healthy plant. Didn't that one little flower just smell divine? And I think I see a very nice hederifolium leaf in the corner of the first picture.

All kidding aside, it's good to have you pop in. Hope we hear from you more and see more of your cyclamen as the season progresses.

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 12:10 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

There's another little blossom starting to open on that "Silver Leaf" purpurascens, and I think there's a flower bud on one of the plain purpurascens, but it's still too tiny for me to be certain.

Life is still hectic; it looks like many of my cyclamen and clematis babies did not survive the periods of my absence. I think they were mostly overwatered by some of their temporary minders, in spite of my warnings. Killing them off with kindness! I'll be planting them out as soon as it cools off here and the rains return (so hot and dry so late this year). I'll plant them all out, even if they are showing no signs of life; some have come back after looking pretty sad in the past.

We'll be leaving for Southern Utah next month, and I can only take a few plants with me. Those lovely scented purpurascenses will definitely be among them.

Anne, Washington State, Zone 5
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Posted on Friday, September 08, 2006 - 12:38 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi! Your plant and photos are great - a lovely colour leaf and flower. Good for you!

Galanthophile - Ann (Northern England), Zone "8"
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Posted on Sunday, September 17, 2006 - 12:46 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I missed you post somehow, Anne. I'm pleased that you're pleased with your first flower.

I hope that your purpurascens do well for you when you plant them out in the garden.

Tim - Cambridgeshire, Zone "7 "
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Posted on Monday, September 18, 2006 - 07:37 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Thanks, Tim.

I feel as though I've fallen down on the job with these babies, but it has been one of those years that seems like living in a soap opera. I'll plant almost all the different cyclamen up here on the mountain as soon as we have enough rain to moisten the soil properly, which we're expecting this week. Some are not supposed to be hardy here, but we have so much snow in the winter, coming early and staying late, that they may survive.

We'll take just a few plants with us to Southern Utah when we leave on October 15, and this energetic, sweet-scented purpurascens will definitely be one of them. She has definitely started on her third flower bud, and there are several more that look like they will be flowers, though they are too small to tell for sure. There are many, many leaves, extending out so far beyond the pot that I have had to move it as it was shading out nearby plants.

Thanks again for all your help.

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Posted on Monday, September 18, 2006 - 08:23 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Valia wrote on Monday, September 18, 2006 - 09:49 am:

There are many, many leaves, extending out so far beyond the pot that I have had to move it as it was shading out nearby plants.



Ann sounds like you have growing cyclamen down pat. Are these indoors or out, are you fertilizing them? Share your secrets with us.

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Tuesday, September 19, 2006 - 07:30 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Alas, it's only this one very vigorous plant. There are a few others that are doing OK, but this one obviously is an overachiever.

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Posted on Sunday, November 19, 2006 - 06:50 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post



The maximum number of blossoms at one time was seven. As soon as a new bud began to open, an old blossom faded and went to seed.



We are now in Southern Utah for the winter. The plants were damaged in an accident on the way down, but most seem to be recovering. I could only bring a few. This plant is still setting seed, though a few blossoms finished up infertile. Now it's only maintaining five blossoms at a time, and I don't see very many buds.

The scent is wonderful, though, and I'm glad I followed your suggestion about this, Tim.

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Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 01:25 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

For the age of that plant, Anne, a maximum of seven flowers is absolutely fantastic, as is the fact that it is maintaining five flowers. This was a nice post to wake up to, Anne.

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Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 06:20 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Hi Anne, good to have you pop in again. That is a beautiful plant. I think we started our seed project the same year so you must have a the magic touch to have your plants so large and with so many flowers.

Hope we'll see more of you.

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"
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Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 06:24 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Anne, you have a very well grown plant!
It's a beauty.

Carol23 - Southeastern PA, Zone "6B"
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Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 06:34 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

This is the only plant that has been so successful, Terry. I had a few more with one or two blossoms before we left Washington ... all C. purpurascens. I planted them out before we left. I tried to bring one corm from each species with me, but brought two of the C. purpurascens.

I don't take any credit for the flourishing of this one plant. That must come from the genes, which would be Tim's responsibility. The difference between this plant and the others is astonishing. I hope I can collect and plant seed, and that at least some of the offspring are equally robust. This is a good time to be starting seed here, as the weather will soon be dependably cool.

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Posted on Monday, November 20, 2006 - 06:47 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Tim will answer more definitively on this but I think the wait for the seed to be mature is long-remember Tim sent seed in summer. So hopefully they will hang in there and produce lots of strong and healthy offspring.

Terryk - NY, Zone "6"

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