Coum and hederifloium are well worth growing outdoors. I think they're nicer than the indoor ones and far less miffy. Hederifolium are just coming into flower now and coum will arrive in January. Hederifolium flower for months, then come into leaf,leaves are very pretty
When you repot your cyclamen, and shake off the old compost as Dove suggests, make sure they are not harbouring vine weevil grubs - they love to chew the corm from below...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Hello again. I just thought I would update on these cyclamen. I decided to plant them outside - I have put them on the rockery - even though apparently they are the wrong variety. I know you all told me not to do this but they really were not doing well as a houseplant, and I want to to reduce number of pots. In addition I read a blog where a gardener has put C percicum outside and it survived apparently for 3 years! I will let you know if mine survive... Also I was inspired by my piano teacher who put his Christmas pointsetta in the flower bed and it has thrived ever since apparently lol!
I know other people who have put houseplants in the flowerbed and they have done very well. Seems to be the rage to put houseplants in the ground in the garden. I am going to put my amaryllis in the ground after their next flowering, which is coming up soon :-)
Wakeshine, they were doing just fine as houseplants! It's perfectly normal for them to go back towards a dormant state right before flowering. Mine are kept indoors and are winter flowering, typically the cycle goes flower from October to March they the foliage takes over until August. The foliage dies back or even completely then within a few weeks a couple of leaves will appear and it'll start flowering again. I've had mine indoors now for the last six years, I divided it once by cutting the corm in half so now I have two! The pattern is the same every year.
Anyway, hopefully they'll like their new home but if not they do make excellent houseplants. For what it's worth mine are kept on the windowsill where it's nice and bright (sunny in the morning to around 11am then no direct sunlight).
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Okay thanks Dove from above.
Hi again Wakeshine. I guess you haven't yet scrolled back to read what I posted for you but Dove's comments more or less echo what I said.
Yes I have read both of your comments. thank you
Coum and hederifloium are well worth growing outdoors. I think they're nicer than the indoor ones and far less miffy. Hederifolium are just coming into flower now and coum will arrive in January. Hederifolium flower for months, then come into leaf,leaves are very pretty
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When you repot your cyclamen, and shake off the old compost as Dove suggests, make sure they are not harbouring vine weevil grubs - they love to chew the corm from below...
Hello again. I just thought I would update on these cyclamen. I decided to plant them outside - I have put them on the rockery - even though apparently they are the wrong variety. I know you all told me not to do this but they really were not doing well as a houseplant, and I want to to reduce number of pots. In addition I read a blog where a gardener has put C percicum outside and it survived apparently for 3 years! I will let you know if mine survive... Also I was inspired by my piano teacher who put his Christmas pointsetta in the flower bed and it has thrived ever since apparently lol!
I know other people who have put houseplants in the flowerbed and they have done very well. Seems to be the rage to put houseplants in the ground in the garden. I am going to put my amaryllis in the ground after their next flowering, which is coming up soon :-)
Cyclamen persicum can survive minus 7C if kept dry - it's the wet & cold together which often kill them. Good luck!
Tthanks Lirodendron...and I wpnder how long they can survive. There is a lof of wet where I am!
Wakeshine, they were doing just fine as houseplants! It's perfectly normal for them to go back towards a dormant state right before flowering. Mine are kept indoors and are winter flowering, typically the cycle goes flower from October to March they the foliage takes over until August. The foliage dies back or even completely then within a few weeks a couple of leaves will appear and it'll start flowering again. I've had mine indoors now for the last six years, I divided it once by cutting the corm in half so now I have two! The pattern is the same every year.
Anyway, hopefully they'll like their new home but if not they do make excellent houseplants. For what it's worth mine are kept on the windowsill where it's nice and bright (sunny in the morning to around 11am then no direct sunlight).
Unless you live in the canaries, amaryllis will def not do outdoors! But I appreciate your optimism!