Graeme, re C.graecum I find that some seedlings grow rapidly and others are slow. I usually pick out the faster growing ones and pot them on separately and...
Graeme, What's a "7*7*8" pot? How big is a 50 pence piece? --Henry Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Zone4/5 (min -35C) ... __________________________________ Do...
... I think it may be a 7x7x8 cm pot, which is about 2.8 x 2.8 x 3.2 inches. 2.5cm = 1 inch ... Hmmm, if it's like a NZ 50 cents piece it's very similar to the...
Tilebarn Nicholas seems a very obliging plant. I obtained mine from Tilebarn some 3 years ago and got some healthy seed pods a year later. I attach a picture...
I love the picture of the Tilebarn Nicholas seedlings in bloom. What a lovely leaf with the pink and the Christmas tree pattern. JanK in Coquille OR...
I live in York, a bit further south than Sunderland, and I too am having the best C graecum season for years. I was thinking of writing about it this morning;...
Boize, Barbara (ESD)
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Oct 2, 2003 8:14 am
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Hi Paul, very nice pic! Plants will vary as they were produced by sexual reproduction (even if the plants were self pollinated) and so will be genetically...
Thanks, Mark, for your advice about labelling my seedligs and also the kind comment on the Tilebarn Nic Pic. (It was one of my first with a new macro lens - I...
I am watching hederifolium come into bloom (over the last several weeks) and have been wondering about a number of "questions". Yesterday I saw a bumble type...
The Grahams
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Oct 5, 2003 1:30 am
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Last year I visited a friend and saw an amazingly long and decoratively marked hed leaf. I immediately went home, dug up all my long-leaves, and planted them...
This is something I wonder about too. On our land in Corfu, Greece, we have thousands of C.hederifolium growing wild, and the range of colour (white to...
I have regularly observed flying insect working on my hederifolium flowers. I am aware that seedlings from my own plant gradually include some of the...
Cali Doxiadis, Good luck on your "segregation" of white hederifolium, based on my experience you should have success. I find that seed from white...
The Grahams
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Oct 5, 2003 3:05 pm
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The best 'Ruby Strain' are very dark and intense but blooms ... one silver ... any 'Ruby ... good as ... Wondered about that myself. The Ruby Strain plants I...
Hello Russ-- --My experience with white has been that the stalk collapses before the seed is ripe. So even when they do set seed it hardly ever lasts long...
Hi - I haven't been keeping up with this discussion, so may be repeating something, but I find that I get very good seed set on my white-flowered stock plants,...
Ellen Hornig
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Oct 6, 2003 3:07 pm
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I think if a cyclamen flower stem collapses it is probably because the flower has not been pollinated. Get the paint brush out and try being a hover fly! Rick...
Cali, My immediate conclusion is the same as Ellen's and Rick's that a flower stem collapse is a good indication that there was no pollination. Have you ...
The Grahams
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Oct 7, 2003 1:55 pm
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Russ, No, apart from some minor ventures with a paint brush many years ago and more recently tapping the flower stems of cyclamen in the green house I decided...
Hello Rick As far as interspecific hybrids are concerned, I am in full aggreement with you. I can not see the point at all and do not intend to buy any hybrid...
Hi, ok, I$B!G(Bll come in defence of some of the hybrids, with a tip of the hat to Percy Picton who I visited as teenager many times and was a bit of a...
This hederifolium confusum, with much more elegantly twisted petals than usual, is in a big colony of more normal plants in the gorge just above Kardamili...
Alisdair Aird
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Oct 14, 2003 9:04 am
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Alistair, your photo makes me think that our hederifoliums here in Corfu must be confusum too--they look exactly like that. Cali Community email addresses: ...
I have not looked at the picture of confusum, YET. But just yesterday I was looking at another of my first confusum to bloom and noted that it is scented, are...
The Grahams
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Oct 15, 2003 3:45 pm
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My Hed. confusum plants (seed from Zakynthos) have a fabulous scent. Regards Steve Walters West Yorkshire, England...
Steve Walters
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Oct 15, 2003 11:36 pm
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Growing near Milia (Mani); all the Mani colonies I've seen have been more or less scented. Alisdair Aird...
Alisdair Aird
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Oct 16, 2003 9:04 am
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At the risk of seeming too redundant, I want to revisit the brief discussion about cross pollination and pollination in hederifolium. My "thought" about cross...
The Grahams
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Oct 16, 2003 3:06 pm
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The 2 hederifolium plants that I grew from seed collected in the Sirikari Gorge (Crete) in 1990 (And which I now assume to be Confusum) were strongly scented....
Hi: Does anyone know why the leaves of my white cyclamen are sticky? It looks like drops of water but they are not. I've had the plant for six years and it...
