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Carol23
| | Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 05:52 pm EST : |   
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As I continue my survey of area gardens with success in Cyclamen plantings, I stopped to visit Ann in her garden. Ann has lots of crabapple trees in the back garden, many deer browsing, and a sloping back yard - something in common with other plantings. I've noticed that slopes and raised beds work well, plus plantings at the base of trees if the water doesn't run off the tree in that spot.
Plants are protected with wire mesh or wire baskets.
a nursery of Cyclamen coum
Ann's best and oldest hederifolium - about 6 years or so this one flowers for an extended period of time, a few months!
and this one Ann thought was coum but I insisted it is purpurascens, and the only one growing in her garden.
Carol23
- Southeastern PA,
Zone "6B"
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Donn
My Favorite Photo
| | Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 06:30 pm EST : |
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Lovely!
The last photo..what critter creates those little holes in the leaves? They appear to be a progressive problem, with the outer edge of the hole looking to be dessicated.
Donn
- New York,
Zone "7"
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Jgwoodard
My Garden
| | Posted on Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 06:43 pm EST : |
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Carol, you are fortunate to be near such a gardening community. I particularly like the coum nursery. It is like a small fortress.
Jgwoodard
- TN,
Zone "7"
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Carol23
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 08:05 am EST : |
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There's a screen cover for that coum nursery, Joseph. We removed it for picture taking.
I think the local chapter of NARGS is partly responsible for many of the best gardens in the area. The sharing of plant material and knowledge is truly remarkable. The first garden I photographed ( with the rocks ) was a copy of a planting from another NARGS member. I've not yet visited the garden with the original plan.
Here's a moss trough from the same garden pictured above.
I don't have a true rock garden, but have troughs and a few wheelbarrow planters with interesting little treasures that would otherwise be buried in the jungle of my garden.
Most of us contribute and participate in the NARGS seed exchange.
Carol23
- Southeastern PA,
Zone "6B"
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Carol23
| | Posted on Friday, December 01, 2006 - 08:17 am EST : |
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Donn, we are all thinking that a caterpillar or cutworm made the holes in the foliage.
On the " Rodent Repellent" thread, there are pictures of the damage to other Cyclamen.
Carol23
- Southeastern PA,
Zone "6B"
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Tim
| | Posted on Saturday, December 02, 2006 - 01:33 am EST : |
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Carol, it's great to see that there are people who are enthusiastic enough about cyclamen to have mass planting like those you have shown us over the last few days.
The plain leaf plant in photo number 5 at a quick glance would pass for parviflorum (at least to my eyes, anyway)- especially looking at the very bottom leaf and seeing that some of the leaves are convex in appearance, but I think I'm probably getting my hopes up and that the plant is a plain leaf form of C. coum.
I'm fond of plain leaf forms of all the cyclamen species so much so that I select them out to keep as stock plants, so I'm pleased to see that you've included a photo of it.
Tim
- Cambridgeshire,
Zone "7 "
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Jgwoodard
My Garden
| | Posted on Saturday, December 02, 2006 - 02:23 am EST : |
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Tim, you are speaking my language here. 
Jgwoodard
- TN,
Zone "7"
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Carol23
| | Posted on Saturday, December 02, 2006 - 12:28 pm EST : |
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Tim, I had to access this site from the library. No idea why I cannot connect from home.
There seems to be a growing number of Cyclamen enthusiasts here, especially among members of the NARGS. I'll have to look for the flower on that plant in late winter and see if you think it is parviflorum? When growing plants from seed , the outcome can be a surprise.
I happen to love my plain leaf hederifolium, Tim. With all the fancy leaf forms, it surprises me to find a plain one. I'm glad you mentioned keeping those plain ones as stock plants!
Carol23
- Southeastern PA,
Zone "6B"
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Tony_willis
| | Posted on Saturday, December 02, 2006 - 12:34 pm EST : |
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Carol
I agree with Tim that certainly does look like a parviflorum. The only thing that puts doubts in my mind is that it looks too robust. I know there are some in pots that are very strong growing but that is certainly not my experience outside or in the wild.It would certainly be an achievement if it is.
Tony_willis
- Lancashire,
Zone "7"
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Tim
| | Posted on Saturday, December 02, 2006 - 02:55 pm EST : |
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Yeah Tony, that's what puts the doubt in my mind. It does look a little too happy. The leaf is smooth too, which reminds me of a lot of parviflorum. Coum usually has more veins across the leaves than are visible in that photo.
As much as I would like that plant to be parviflorum, I don't think it is. The flowers will be a giveaway though.
Tim
- Cambridgeshire,
Zone "7 "
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Berthold
| | Posted on Sunday, December 03, 2006 - 09:44 am EST : |
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to increase confusion a little bit two more "non" parviflorum:(first with babies and Lilium candidum)
I cannot exclude the plant in the private garden is this one
(Tim: Coum usually has more veins across the leaves than are visible in that photo)
Berthold
- NRW, Germany,
Zone "8a"
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Berthold
| | Posted on Monday, December 04, 2006 - 05:14 pm EST : |
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second plant is intaminatum 2.5 years old and in flower already a month ago and a little bit less nerved in leaves than coum
Berthold
- NRW, Germany,
Zone "8a"
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Tim
| | Posted on Tuesday, December 05, 2006 - 01:36 am EST : |
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You beat me to it, Berthold. I had thought intaminatum in that second photo as I can see a few speckles on the large leaf at the bottom left corner of the photo.
The plain green leaved coum in your first photo is very nice, Berthold. As I have said before, I find the plain green leaves very attractive on any species. In pots, plain green leaved coum seems to me to be a little difficult to keep really happy - many of my plants have leaves which turn a little yellow quite early on in the season, which makes it more of a challenge.
Tim
- Cambridgeshire,
Zone "7 "
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