I have both types in my garden. The bedding ones have definitely made it through last winter and have produced loads of little seedlings too. This is the result of just one that I didn't bother to keep deheading as they were still flowering in the spring. I am now waiting to see how fast the little ones grow.
The little hardy cyclamen are in flower now here in hedgerows, lawns and shrubby edges of woodland gardens. They are small, just 3 inches or so high and tend to be shades of pink or white and occasionally almost crimson pink. I have friends in Belgium who have them growing wild in their woodland and I had them in a shady corner of an otherwise sunny bed under a large acer Sango-Kaku. They tend to be sold with leaves and flowers but, in the "wild", the leaves follow the flowers and the plants spread by seed being scattered from the parent when it uncoils those curled stems with the seedheads.. They grow on well if not accidentally weeded when tiny.
The larger ones have bigger leaves, bigger flowers, taller stems and are not hardy. Just got back from Bilbao where they have them in long troughs down the middle of roads in the city. Glorious.
Anything not labelled coum or hederifolium may well survive and even thrive in window boxes raised above ground level and in full sun but would need shelter from frosts forecast to be more than 1 or 2 degrees below C.
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I have picked this thread up again. I am still confused about what variety I have now. Whatever variety it is they are still growing and blooming despite gound frosts.
flowering now, in the UK they will be the varieties of C. persica that Buttercupdays mention earlier. C. hederifolium has finished flowering and is all leaves. It's a little early for the tiny, but bright, flowers of C. coum.
Following my worries up the thread about whether or not I bought the wrong cyclamen I have looked at mine this week and most of them look a bit battered but are still alive.
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Broadleigh send them out in late Autumn and early Spring
http://www.broadleigh-autumn.co.uk/shop/catshow/CYCLAMEN/cyclamen.html
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I have both types in my garden. The bedding ones have definitely made it through last winter and have produced loads of little seedlings too. This is the result of just one that I didn't bother to keep deheading as they were still flowering in the spring. I am now waiting to see how fast the little ones grow.
There may be hope for mine yet.
Must get back to the twix bar ice cream I am supposed to be making.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
The little hardy cyclamen are in flower now here in hedgerows, lawns and shrubby edges of woodland gardens. They are small, just 3 inches or so high and tend to be shades of pink or white and occasionally almost crimson pink. I have friends in Belgium who have them growing wild in their woodland and I had them in a shady corner of an otherwise sunny bed under a large acer Sango-Kaku. They tend to be sold with leaves and flowers but, in the "wild", the leaves follow the flowers and the plants spread by seed being scattered from the parent when it uncoils those curled stems with the seedheads.. They grow on well if not accidentally weeded when tiny.
The larger ones have bigger leaves, bigger flowers, taller stems and are not hardy. Just got back from Bilbao where they have them in long troughs down the middle of roads in the city. Glorious.
Anything not labelled coum or hederifolium may well survive and even thrive in window boxes raised above ground level and in full sun but would need shelter from frosts forecast to be more than 1 or 2 degrees below C.
I have picked this thread up again. I am still confused about what variety I have now. Whatever variety it is they are still growing and blooming despite gound frosts.
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Most of mine seem to have bright coloured flowers that do look a wee bit frosted but leaves seem unaffected. How "big is big" for the non hardy ones?
There is probably not much I can do but wait and see what does or doesn't come up next year.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'
flowering now, in the UK they will be the varieties of C. persica that Buttercupdays mention earlier. C. hederifolium has finished flowering and is all leaves. It's a little early for the tiny, but bright, flowers of C. coum.
C. hederifolium flowers before the leaves appear
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Following my worries up the thread about whether or not I bought the wrong cyclamen I have looked at mine this week and most of them look a bit battered but are still alive.
'You must have some bread with it me duck!'