can any one give me the reason why developing flower's rot just as they are emerging thrwe the gravel in my clay pot's..usually around the edge of the...
Hi Jimmy, The same sometimes happenes to me as well. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. I checked the soil, but I could not find the reason. Last year a...
My C. coum f. albissimum 'Golan Heights' plants have very good flowers, the petioles however are to long. Because of the long petioles the plants always look a...
Very Interesting Jan, Just yesterday I was looking at my white flowered coum and wondering why the "stems" were so long. I "assumed" it was from growing...
The Grahams
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Russ, it might be that they came from the Moscow Botanical Gardens, I have seen some "Russian" seed offered that gave that as the source. regards, Mark ... ...
Hi Russ, For two years I got a C. coum from a Russian friend, he called the plant C. vernum. The plant has seven flowers now, the colour is beautiful and the ...
Hi everyone, hope I am doing this right, my first time, you know! I am a very novice cyclamen person, having always liked them but only just started...
Ali, I take mine out of the greenhouse for summer and put them on the greenhouse benches, which I move up to our covered walk. I do this because I clean...
Hi Marge, thanks for you prompt reply, I do hope you don't mind me asking a few more questions, as I am such a novice here. I have never thought about...
Ali, I keep my cyclamens in a shaded greenhouse. The pots stand on a black plastic sheet that lets the water through but prevents pests from entering the pots ...
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Mar 30, 2002 12:39 pm
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You're welcome, Ali. Well, my watering schedule is likely going to be quite different than yours because our climates are so different...I gather you are in...
I've just joined the list. I'm a garden writer based partly in the UK and partly in Pennsylvania where I'm just starting to make a new garden on two acres of...
I have bought and imported from Tile Barn: The quality is very good and I have been quite satisfied dealing with them. Harold ... Prof. Harold Koopowitz ...
Harold Koopowitz
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Mar 31, 2002 3:52 pm
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Graham, I'm also in the UK so I haven't done the "import thing". Peter has very good plants, another source would be Paul Christian, a link to his site is on...
Hi Ali, I tend to keep the more precious forms in the greenhouse in the summer but usually move out the hardier ones that prefer a cool semi moist rest into a...
Ali, if you don't mind me butting in again, re watering in summer..Cyclamen hederifolium, C. cilicium, C. repandum, C. mirabile can all be grown outside here...
Hi Mark thanks for your reply, I have not been growing cyclamen for very long, and appreciate all the advice I am receiving here, from you and others. I took...
Dear Ali, please make yourself known to me when you come to the show. I will be wearing a name badge! During the day we usually manage to do a couple of...
trevor wiltshire
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Mar 31, 2002 7:47 pm
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Trevor all I can say is you're on! I will definetly seek you out. Thanks Ali trevor wiltshire <trevorw7@...> wrote: Dear Ali,please make...
Ali, yes I am very close, I also hope to be at the show at Wisley. Do you want to e-mail me privately, maybe you would like to come over and visit one day? ...
Graham: There are two supplies of cyclamens here in the USA. Seneca Hill Nursery and David Fischer in Maine. I have ordered from Seneca on many occasions and...
A question, I have a cyclamen africanum (supposedly) with its first flower open now a nice white, no leaves as yet, the problem is according to the books...
Lyn, Thanks for your question. Harold thanks for your answer. I have 2 white flowering plants that I suspect are Africanum. Suspect because I raised them from...
HI, Quick comment on preventing pests from entering pots. I use terracotta pots - helps to avoid plants getting too wet. I place a small piece of fly wire mesh...
Some of the leaves on my Graecums are turning yellow, why is this and should I be worried? They are in pots in the greenhouse. They are in well drained...
Graecums are summer dormant. You should reduce watering now and keep them on the dry side with only an occassional sprinkle until buds appear in the Fall. ...
Harold Koopowitz
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Apr 1, 2002 3:30 pm
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So Harold the yellow leaves are quite natural then? Ali Harold Koopowitz <hkoopowi@...> wrote: Graecums are summer dormant. You should reduce watering now...
Yes and no. They will yellow as the plants go dormant but they will also yellow if the roots or tuber starts to rot. GHarold ... them on ... Do You Yahoo!? ...
