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what do i do with this ...AGAIN?!
kevvo
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What kind of busy lizzie is this. And info on how to look after it would be appreciated.
If my pictures dont get sent this time then i will give up and go back to being a moron.
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now i know what to do (thanks Pam) if you want another different pic then i will send it out.
It's a cyclamen
http://www.cyclamen.org/faq_set.html
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
so NOT a busy lizzie?. mmmmm. looks ike i better google it and find out what to do. Althouh your link will be great!
Many thanks dovefromabove.
Unusual to see them flowering this time of year Kevvo - they usually flower in the winter, then die off in the summer to re-emerge as the months get cooler.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
''Unusual to see them flowering this time of year Kevvo - they usually flower in the winter, then die off in the summer to re-emerge as the months get cooler'.
Precisely Dovefromabove. i read all the gen in the link you gave me and it repeated that over and over again. I see that this plant has a lot of the associations of a busy lizzie, like half brothers really!
But this is still all very complicated to me. I have a very vague recollection of going in the shop and asking for a plant that flowered all the year round, this is what i bought! Yet cyclamens are not like that are they? But it did mention the fact that florists cyclamens (potted variety) are different from the other wilder type. Maybe that is it?
I knew nothing about cyclamens before today, I am now going to write a book and to see if channel 4 wil give me a weekly half hour show on cyclamen cutivation. I now consider myslf an expert.
I wish!
Thank you once again for your help. Much appreciated
Kev.