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Tim
| | Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 02:20 pm EST : |   
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C. purpurascens is my favourite species, not least because it flowers for such a long period of time. My plants started to flower at the end of August and are still going thanks to a second flush. They will still be flowering in February. No other cyclamen species gives such value.
Tim
- Cambridgeshire,
Zone "7 "
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Terryk
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| | Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 04:07 pm EST : |
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How do you get a second flush? I want mine to do the same! What a stunning site to see all those purpurascens still in bloom. You must be so happy when you go into the glasshouse and the scent of these meet you.
Is the plant in the left hand side of the photos also a purpurascen? It is such a striking leaf pattern. I have to go look and see if any of mine resemble that one.
Terryk
- NY,
Zone "6"
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Tim
| | Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 04:26 pm EST : |
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Hi Terry. Every single one of the plants in each photo is an example of C. purpurascens.
I'm not sure why the second flush happens, Terry. Sorry! It does happen every year though. Other cyclamen growers who are growing cyclamen in the US have said that their plants don't have a second flush. I haven't asked anyone in the UK whether or not their plants do it. The second flush is never as free flowering as the main display, but it's very welcome all the same. I tend not to get much seed set from the second flush either. Probably too cold and damp for that.
Tim
- Cambridgeshire,
Zone "7 "
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Terryk
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| | Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 04:58 pm EST : |
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Well that looks like enough flowers to make your nose happy! I can't wait till my plants give me that many flowers.
Terryk
- NY,
Zone "6"
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Carol23
| | Posted on Saturday, December 23, 2006 - 05:04 pm EST : |
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Beautiful, Tim. More flowers = more seed, right? Get out the tiny paint brush if you don't have any bees!
Carol23
- Southeastern PA,
Zone "6B"
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Jan_bravenboer
| | Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 03:29 am EST : |
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Hi Tim,
I have a lot of flowers in the C. purpurascens at Christmas time as well. However I remove the flowers from now on, the plant should keep his energy for next year. The December flowers are very difficult to pollinate so the plant soon is full of rotten stems. I always am afraid that these rotten stems soon will kill the summer seed pods. All C. elegans stopped flowering now, some C.alpinum, C. coum, C. persicum and C. x wellensiekii started flowering for some weeks.
Regards,
Jan
Jan_bravenboer
- -,
Zone "7/8"
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Tim
| | Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 04:38 am EST : |
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Hi Jan,
Yes, I agree about the flowers at this time of the year being difficult to pollinate. If you look closely at my photos, you can see rotting flowers in the background. I do remove them usually as soon as possible as I have found, like you, that they can promote rot on the young seed pods.
C. elegans is still going here. There is one alpinum flower open, a few persicum and also a few coum, but not much else. There are still a few very late mirabile and intaminatum too, but the flowers on these are looking scruffy now.
Tim
- Cambridgeshire,
Zone "7 "
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Matthias
| | Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 06:43 am EST : |
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Tim, I can only repeat: These plants must be very happy in your greenhouse.
Matthias
- South Germany,
Zone "7"
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Terryk
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| | Posted on Sunday, December 24, 2006 - 09:38 am EST : |
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Jan or Tim, do you ever cut the flowers and put them in a tiny vase like a bouquet of lily of the valley? I would think they would be wonderful to have in the house. This way you could get to enjoy these second round of flowers and not have to worry about them causing rot to your seed pods.
Terryk
- NY,
Zone "6"
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