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Hosta?

Elizabeth225Elizabeth225 Posts: 96
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Is this a variegated Hosta,just found it at the bottom of my garden.
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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    No.
    It looks like a Cyclamen to me.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I'd say cyclamen too.
    Such perfect markings, it looks almost artificial!
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Elizabeth225Elizabeth225 Posts: 96
    Many thanks,I have got a few cyclamens growing In various parts of the garden but nothing as lovely as this,it’s perfect.
  • Arthur1Arthur1 Posts: 542
    It looks stunning. Cyclamen are very good at seeding themselves about the place.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    Cyclamen hederifolium.  But an especially good variegation.  Mine (all pure white and less striking markings) are flowering at the moment.

    The stems of fertilised cyclamen flowers curl up and the seed pod reaches the soil. When ripe the seed pod opens it is reputed to be carried away by ants (I have never observed this).  But they do come up both on top of the mother plant and further away.

    If you look for the seeds ±August, they germinate readily and will flower in about 3 years.

    If you should want to relocate your "find", be carefully to take a large amount of soil with it.  The corms will be shallow and can be quite big, and the leaves may have travelled sideways for some distance.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think that might be one of those sold at this time of year for winter pots, Cyclamen persicum or a hybrid of. Not so hardy as hederifolium. The leaves don't look like hederifolium to me


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I agree with @nutcutlet, I don’t think it is a hederefolium, but a fancier type.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited October 2022
    I had a basket full of Cyclamen persicum as a gift. After flowering I planted them in the garden, two of the five came back and one flowered. There is some confusion,thousands of C persicum in the GC's at present, people expect them to grow back the following year if planted out. C hederifolium come up year on year and spread in my garden. This year due to the dry summer and the ants that move the seed around they have been better than ever.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    I love having Cyclamen in my winter pots and always plant them out into the garden afterwards. Like @GardenerSuze experience, some survive and some don’t, but I now have a lovely display in the garden each year which is gradually increasing.
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited October 2022
    Whether hederiflolium or persicum, it will be have been selected for leaf, possibly at the expense of flower.

    Persia has quite a harsh climate, I would expect a some persicums to survive a light frost.  Do forum members have any experience of what killed ones planted in the open?
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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