The main feature of plants in the Bowles Apollo group is a double (or interrupted) silver shield on the leaf, the larger part of which is nearer the stem, and...
Alisdair
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Nov 1, 1999 8:31 am
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C. hederifolium 'Apollo' or 'Bowles' Apollo Group' should have pink flowers. The red colouration on the leaves, which is due to red pigmentation in the cell...
John Grimshaw
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Nov 1, 1999 9:04 am
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Hi Ellen, I'd suggest that with the cyclamen we are talking about - there is no effective difference between the "ex" strain and the true seed strain - the ...
John T Lonsdale
lonso1@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 31, 1999 9:04 pm
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... Well, of course I understand that seed is our only option here; but that doesn't answer the question of why cultivar names are being applied to seed...
Ellen Hornig
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Nov 1, 1999 12:18 am
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Hi Ellen, No - the problem is transnational. Cyclamen present a unique issue in that vegetative propagation is effectively unavailable, whatever is written in...
John T Lonsdale
lonso1@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 31, 1999 7:42 pm
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And while Rick is awaiting an answer to his query re how to identify the "true" `Bowles' Apollo", maybe someone can explain how we justify attaching varietal...
Ellen Hornig
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Oct 31, 1999 8:11 pm
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After years of growing seed labelled Cyclamen hedarifolium 'Apollo' and searching among them I have finally found three seedlings in a pot of seed sown last...
Lamberts
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Oct 31, 1999 4:16 pm
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... Ernie, Your basement conditions sound just fine. The lights will raise the temperature a degree or two around the seedling pots, also good. If you want...
Marc Zwelling
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Oct 26, 1999 4:52 pm
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Ernie Flippo asked for info on sowing Cyclamen seed. Research done at Reading University, U.K., showed that Cyclamen seed germinate best at 15 centigrade (50...
Paul Cumbleton
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Oct 26, 1999 9:58 am
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Thanks very much for the responses to my question about overwintering any seedlings that may germinate from fall-sown Cyclamen seed. Most of the references I...
Edflippo@xxx.xxx
Oct 25, 1999 11:17 pm
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... Ernie, I can offer some beginner insights to growing cyclamen seed in a cold climate. I live in Toronto (U.S. zone 5, Canadian zone 6) and my experience...
Marc Zwelling
vector@xxxxxxxxx.xxx
Oct 25, 1999 6:37 pm
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Ernie, I am certainly no expert - have only been growing Cyclamen from seed for four years, but I follow the advice given in the last paragraph with great ...
EBT
ebt007@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 25, 1999 4:33 am
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Any tips on the handling of cyclamen seed would be appreciated. I recently potted up a small shipment of seed from the Cyclamen Seed Exchange: a nice range...
Edflippo@xxx.xxx
Oct 25, 1999 2:11 am
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These leaf forms do occur in nature. From our own personal experience it seems that the degree to which they "come true" varies from clone to clone. As with...
Alisdair
Alisdair@xxxxxxxxxx.x...
Oct 24, 1999 7:51 am
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Do hastate and sagitate leaf forms in C. hederifolium occur in nature or are these largely the result of cultivation and selective breeding? I have a few from...
Louise Parsons
parsont@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 23, 1999 2:43 pm
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Back from three weeks in the Peloponnese, where an uncommonly dry and hot spell (after a cool rather damp earlier September) has thoroughly confused the...
Alisdair
Alisdair@xxxxxxxxxx.x...
Oct 19, 1999 5:09 pm
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Cyclamen plural: the correct usuage is cyclamen, not cyclamens. Two headed, faciated,striped and hose in hose flowers appear from time to time but the...
trevorw7
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Oct 11, 1999 9:18 pm
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My C. africanum are all a very light pink color, so I can offer no advice on your "album" question. However, I would suggest that you plant out one plant and...
EBT
ebt007@xxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1999 4:29 pm
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Hello, about two years ago I got from a friend a pot with seedling, said to be Cyclamen africanum album. This year some of them flowered and all bloomed as ...
Herbert.Reisinger@xxx...
Oct 11, 1999 5:51 am
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... in ... It happens that I am a translator, so I have a lot of dictionaries and things like that. In none of the English ones there is a plural of Cyclamen, ...
Koster & de Graaf
jaguara@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Oct 6, 1999 12:23 pm
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Re Harry Dewey's question. I don't know if the Society has taken a position on this but, to my ear, "cyclamens" sounds terribly clumsy. I don't think the...
Steve.Walters@xxxxxxx...
Oct 6, 1999 9:45 am
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I add to Louise's comments as follows: A single species of cyclamen can have a range of hardiness. I always quote C.coum as being very hardy yet lost some...
Lamberts
gram.needletins@xxxxx...
Oct 5, 1999 9:47 pm
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Cyc. hederifolium, coum and purpurascens seem all to be quite hardy here in zone 5b - though we do have consistent snowcover, which makes us effectively a Z6...
Ellen Hornig
hornig@xxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 5, 1999 3:35 pm
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... in Michigan. Snow cover is not reliable.>>> I never can remember the mintemps that go with USDA zones and don't have a map at hand. Microclimate can be a...
Louise Parsons
parsont@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 5, 1999 1:51 pm
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... Hi In the past I had several oddities in the garden, such as twin leaves (especially in seedlings), strange flowers some with more petals, some with less...
Koster & de Graaf
jaguara@xxxxxxxx.xxx
Oct 5, 1999 6:31 am
5
I am curious as to what cyclamen species would be hardy to zone 4 or 5 in Michigan. Snow cover is not reliable. Diana Pederson, MI USDA Zone 5...
Diana Pederson
plantaholic@xxxxxxx.x...
Oct 4, 1999 10:09 pm
4
Last spring a Cyclamen coum seedling produced two-headed flowers. Like Janus guarding the portals, the slightly oversized flower heads faced in opposite...
Louise Parsons
parsont@...
Oct 4, 1999 6:51 pm
3
Has the Cyclamen Society taken a position on whether or not the word "cyclamen" is to be treated as singular or plural? I recently ran across "To me, cyclamen...
Harry Dewey, Beltsvil...
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Sep 30, 1999 2:37 pm
2
Hello, Does anyone have experience/information about growing cyclamen in southern Ontario (Canada). I mean growing them well, in a nice patch actually...
vector@xxxxxxxxx.xx
Sep 18, 1999 4:45 pm
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Hi, new list members. Is there anyone out there who might be prepared to write either an article or a shorter note on their experiences of growing cyclamen in...
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