If you're looking for C. coum - check out B&Q and other corporate garden centre type places now. Not unusual to see pots of it being sold off for 15p each after they've finished flowering. I would go for coum personally, the flowers are more welcome at this time of year, I have a few hederifolium but they are always so hidden by other plants and leaves. They're probably best in grass.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
Just to add that my C. coum have self seeded prolifically, so planting bulbs or plants at fairly wide spacing, and letting the seedlings infill the spaces between, seems a good idea. Although ants distribute the seeds, so they could end up popping up a fair distance away.
"What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour".
(not tagging you bédé because I think you posted in another thread that you don't like it).
I don't like the @ attached to my name. If that is what tagging is. It's too ... well, social media-ish. It's usually when I am being bossed. But thank you for thinking. And thank you for the accents.
REgarding moving cyclamen, I move them when I can see them and when I can see where to plant them (and when I am in the mood). It often corresponds to full leaf growth season.
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've got two pots with accidental cyclamen seedlings in and have been wondering how best to replant them in the ground. Carefully easing up each individual seedling or trying to ease out the whole clump? Do they come up with roots or little cormlets?
My first C. coum were bought from B& Pooh a few years ago when they were selling them for about a pound a pot. Each plant I chose was for colour or leaf. I think I bought six at the time, lost one or two to rot, and now we have many seedlings from those some of which are now flowering. I really cannot quite remember when I bought them but it was two or three years just before the Covid lockdown. We now have a shallow bulb planter full of a little white one with plain green leaves and some which I did nurture from seed in pots will probably be of flowering size next year. So maybe not so long?
Anyway , also nurture any ants in the area. I know they can be a pain but in this case with Cyclamen they are quite helpful and known for distributing the seeds.
You get a clump of flowers and leaves from the central part of a big corm. It's still just one plant. They also tend to seed on top so sometimes you get small corms growing on top of bigger ones. I often leave them to get on with it but the small ones could be pulled off and replanted.
I wasn't offended by the ebay remark (in case you thought I was).
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Cyclamen coum ....Pics below show them planted in South Wales under oak trees. Patience is needed. I was advised years ago never to mix Cyclamen coum and Cyclamen hederifolium in the same area.
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I don't like the @ attached to my name. If that is what tagging is. It's too ... well, social media-ish. It's usually when I am being bossed. But thank you for thinking. And thank you for the accents.
REgarding moving cyclamen, I move them when I can see them and when I can see where to plant them (and when I am in the mood). It often corresponds to full leaf growth season.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
Apologies for hijacking this thread.
I think I bought six at the time, lost one or two to rot, and now we have many seedlings from those some of which are now flowering. I really cannot quite remember when I bought them but it was two or three years just before the Covid lockdown.
We now have a shallow bulb planter full of a little white one with plain green leaves and some which I did nurture from seed in pots will probably be of flowering size next year.
So maybe not so long?
Anyway , also nurture any ants in the area. I know they can be a pain but in this case with Cyclamen they are quite helpful and known for distributing the seeds.
Also not sure where you are but my MIL (Yorkshire) gave me C purpurascens which is scented and flowers in summer. Ours thrive with a little dribble of water and feed and touch of compost under a yew tree.
https://www.cyclamen.org/plants/species/cyclamen-purpurascens/the summer
https://www.cyclamen.org/plant-species-and-descriptions/species/
This one does take longer to grow from seed and establish compare to C hederifolium, and coum. But is well worth it as hardy here?
@Loxley sorry I missed your ant comment on first reading your post re ants.
Patience is needed.
I was advised years ago never to mix Cyclamen coum and Cyclamen hederifolium in the same area.