Thank you Dove. The key word was "recommend". And I don't think that the "powers that be" read everything. If they do, it might help to keep them on their toes.
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."
It was all just a ruse to catch people out, I'm actually Carol Klein and I Iove a bit of argy bargy.. I've really got no idea where that hidden knowledge thing came from. 🤣
I think the one I bought in autumn is a hederifolium, and in flower at a more natural time, it seems happy so far in any case. I will feel rightfully chuffed if it spreads!
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PS to others: Whilst I am still giving great help to some people, don't expect me to slide quietly away and neglect them.
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."
I'm just glad I pressed the ignore button [should have done it sooner] @GardenerSuze, so now I don't have to see any of it Hopefully, @Slow-worm has had plenty of ideas and advice, but the general consensus is that the plant she bought is highly unlikely to be hardy. I think the confusion came about early on because she thought cyclamen flowered in summer, so she felt this one could be a hardy type as it was flowering when she bought it in autumn. All the supermarkets sell these 'annual' ones, and as @Dovefromabove pointed out, there are new types being bred all the time too. They would still struggle at minus two or similar if the conditions were wet and cold, rather than dry, so are best regarded as annual, or very short term perennials.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
@Slow-worm ... if you would like some genuine C. hederifolium babies just PM me your contact details and I'll pop some in the post for you ... they're spreading into the asparagus bed and need moving on ... most of the ones in this garden are white, but as bees are no respecters of garden design a few pale pink ones appear now and again, so I can't guarantee the colour.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I feel actually that I need less than the maintstream coven.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I've really got no idea where that hidden knowledge thing came from. 🤣
PS to others: Whilst I am still giving great help to some people, don't expect me to slide quietly away and neglect them.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Hopefully, @Slow-worm has had plenty of ideas and advice, but the general consensus is that the plant she bought is highly unlikely to be hardy.
I think the confusion came about early on because she thought cyclamen flowered in summer, so she felt this one could be a hardy type as it was flowering when she bought it in autumn.
All the supermarkets sell these 'annual' ones, and as @Dovefromabove pointed out, there are new types being bred all the time too. They would still struggle at minus two or similar if the conditions were wet and cold, rather than dry, so are best regarded as annual, or very short term perennials.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.