Cyclamen

Cyclamen africanum

Big polygonal leaves marbled with silver and sage green. Large, pale-pink flowers in early autumn.

We have had this outside since 1994 on a south-facing area, under sage bushes (sympathetic colouring) where it seeds without apparent knowledge of any supposed tenderness.

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Cyclamen balearicum

This is an uncommon species in the wild scattered across four of the Balearic Islands with a few localities known in France. It prefers scrubby woodland and is usually associated with evergreen Oaks. A lover of shade and humidity disliking strong sunlight or excessively high temperatures.

It has deep blue-green, leaves which are silver-clouded and spotted with scattered silvering on the top. The underside of the leaves is red-purple. The flowers are pure white, sometimes with a very faint veining which is at most a subtle shade or two different from the white. They bear a sweet, light fragrance and are produced in spring, during March and April.

It is a species for pot culture in the UK as it will not take more than a slight frost but it is perhaps hardy in very favoured spots and further south than the UK. A well drained, leafy compost seems best and something based largely on river sand and deciduous leafmould seems ideal, with the corm planted 4-5cm deep.

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Cyclamen cilicium

This is a lovely species with rounded, silvery-marked leaves held clustered together. These are present with the slightly elongated, honey-scented pastel pink flowers, each marked with magenta, on the nose.

Flowering is in the autumn, after C. hederifolium, with which this will grow happily although it is not quite as assertive as that species and increase is slower.

Easily grown, preferably in light shade, out in the garden here in a well-drained humus-rich soil with reasonable drainage, standard garden Cyclamen conditions in fact.

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Cyclamen cilicium album

A fabulous, true, pure white form of the species raised from seed of the original plant found in Turkey in the 1980s.

This is true-to-name white cilicium and not the miffy white variety intaminatum.

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Cyclamen colchicum

Cyclamen coum album

The excellent winter flowering species is usually encountered in pink, however these selected plants, with mostly plain leaves, have pure white flowers and a plum nose.

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Cyclamen coum Maurice Dryden

The leaves in this form are so heavily clouded that they appear to be almost solid silver, edged with the smallest amount of green.

Above the leaves are held good-sized, dumpy white flowers each of which is contrasted with a plum nose. These appear from January onwards. In effect a white-flowered, Pewter-leaf strain.

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Cyclamen coum Mixed Pinks

A hardy winter-flowering species for the garden with masses of flowers in various shades of pink, from January onwards. Plain green to zoned or patterned leaves persist throughout.

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Cyclamen coum Pewter strain

In this glorious form the markings on the upper leaf surface have expanded to cover the entire leaf, giving a solid, dusty silver-green appearance, with just a thin, deep-green band at the very edge to provide contrast.

The flowers are a very intense and bright pink, almost a shocking-pink in fact. They are paler to the centre, picotee towards the edge.

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Cyclamen coum Red

A very deep stable seedling strain from our deepest red-pink parents. These are our darkest forms and are as red as this species ever gets. They are of about the same colour and intensity as the darkest forms and species such as pseudibericum.

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Cyclamen cyprium

Endemic to the mountain ranges of Cyprus this is one of the most charming species in my eyes.

It has very dark green, gorgeously silver speckled and white marked leaves above which hover pink-nosed, lightly spice-scented, white flowers from September onwards.

Hardy here for many years, one of the best of the autumnal species for those who appreciate the finer points of Cyclamen.

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Cyclamen graecum

A variable species with a range from Greece, Crete, Rhodes, N. Cyprus and S.Turkey. At home in sunny, rocky places and pine woodland, from sea level to 1200m.

The leaves can be deep green, from almost black to silver-grey, pewter, mid-green to lime or dusty sage, with contrasting blotches and veins of the same colour range and additionally maroon undersides and reddish teeth. You also get splendid pink flowers in the autumn and sporadically through the winter.

In cultivation it is tender in N. Europe but with us it stands frost (though not prolonged freezing) if the tuber is deeply planted. It does well under frost-free glass. It has thick contractile roots and likes a deep pot with the top of the tuber exposed at the surface. This can be top-dressed with gravel or decayed pine needles. Flowering is best if the tuber is kept hot and dry over summer with the roots receiving some moisture from the base.

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Cyclamen hederifolium Lysander

Raised from material first found in the Taygetos mountains, close to Sparta, and named after the Greek hero of the ancient city.

This is a uniform, seed-raised strain but some of the plants are fragrant of Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria).

Vigorous and makes a large tuber.

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Cyclamen hederifolium Red Sky

A new introduction with nicely patterned and zoned leaves. Its most notable feature however is the fabulous dark, pink-purple flowers for which this strain was selected. This really is a stunner. The colouring is outstanding and is darker and more vibrant even than C.pseudibericum

Our picture shows Red Sky taken in September 2011 NOT re-coloured, enhanced or tinted in any way.

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Cyclamen hederifolium Silver Leaf

Predominantly silver leaves, some have a thin green margin. In addition it has strong pink flowers in the autumn.

Makes a superb display all year.

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