These are my diddy little coum, a deep pink variety and a pale one with silvery leaves. Now that I look, there are quite a lot of babies around the deep pink ones.
Ignore the label, that belongs to something else.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
My Shady Bank had many C. hed. corms the size of dinner plates when the builders helped dig out the ivy, shore up the bank with sleepers and top up the soil .., they replanted all the huge corms… and ten years on we have many more …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I'll send you some hederifolium seed pods if you like, and if I can catch them when they're ripe but before they fall, but it'd be a few years before they flower. The parents are mostly light pink (much lighter than the pics on J Parkers site) sometimes with a darker eye, and occasionally a white, but they're all mixed up, not labelled, and interbreed so there's no telling what the seeds will turn out to be. If you'd like some to try, remind me in a month or so.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
My dad gave me a C.hederifolium seedling when we got our first garden after we married in 1975. I moved it every time we moved house; for the fourth move, in 2006, I had to put it in a crate because it was too big for any of my pots. Definitely dinner plate size, and not circular, which was why it wouldn't fit in a pot. Sadly it succumbed to vine weevil in 2008, but I moved one of its offspring to Ireland with us in 2019 and it's still going strong, about tea plate size. Lots of self-sown "grandchildren" too, plus some intentionally-sown seedlings in pots to speed up the colonisation process.
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Occasionally I hoick some out and plant them somewhere else
A problem is, that they don't grow straight up from the corm. but travel a bit hoizontally before rising up. You therefore have to start forking carefully, some distance from the perceived centre, and winkle them out. Try to restore the original leaf positions when you are finishing.
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."
Occasionally I hoick some out and plant them somewhere else
A problem is, that they don't grow straight up from the corm. but travel a bit hoizontally before rising up. You therefore have to start forking carefully, some distance from the perceived centre, and winkle them out. Try to restore the original leaf positions when you are finishing.
I'm not as careful as that (not tagging you bédé because I think you posted in another thread that you don't like it). I stuck the spade in near the edge of the area that's full of cyclamen and levered out a clump. I don't fuss with the leaves either. They'll sort themselves out and will be dying back soon in any case. I suppose we can get rather casual about the things that grow
easily for us.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
In the sticks near Peterborough
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."