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Cyclamens

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Get 'em under trees and taller shrubs, especially deciduous and lighter more airy ones. Give them a good watering in and hopefully that will be all you need to do. They naturalised superbly in the woodland bit of the garden I grew up in, all over the ground and even out into the grass paths.  Are they cyclamen coum (spring), or the autumn C. hederifolium?

H-C 

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  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Aym, i think you have probably bought the cyclamen, sold at this time of year, for pots and baskets. They usually last (with me) for a few months.

    C coum and c hederifolium have smaller leaves and dainty flowers.

    H-C:  the ants do a great job spreading the seed around. I now have lots of c hederifolium,  growing in a shady gravel area alongside a path, as a result.

    SW Scotland
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    Aym, you're getting mixed up with corm (a kind of root) and Coum, which is a particular species of cyclamen which flowers in early spring.

    All cyclamen have corms, even tiny seedlings - if the ones you bought don't, they are not cyclamen!

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    Aym{ post a pic as they don't sound like cyclamen.

    SW Scotland
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    And cyclamen coum won't be flowering yet, and cyclamen hederifolium flower before their leaves appear.  


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    image

    some of the hundreds of Cyclamen hederifolium under the hostas on the Shady Bank. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,146

    image

    and some more 

    Last edited: 26 September 2016 17:36:04


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Sorry to but in on your thread aym but I have a cyclamen question.

    Are all cyclamens hardy? If not, how can you tell the difference?

    Also, I was surprised to find that some are beautifully scented

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384

    The scented colourful ones with large flowers (3+cm) you often see in GCs are C. persicum and are not hardy but do make fantastic houseplants (they are also easy from seed.)  They common hardy ones (C. coum and C. hederifolium) have small flowers (1-2cm) and only in pink and white.  There are some other hardy species - lots of all different types here:

    https://www.ashwoodnurseries.com/shop/plants/cyclamen.html

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Thanks Bob. Mine are indoor jobs then.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340

    Hi aym - I posted a pic of cyclamen growing under a climber in my Essex garden - pic here 

    http://www.gardenersworld.com/forum/plants/baby-cyclamen/515336.html

    They're still spreading in that area and in flower now. It's very shady and often dries out in the summer, but they seem to love it there.
    They're in a 2ft raised border that's filled with all sorts of compost and soil. 


    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
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