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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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 ...
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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...
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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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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!? ...
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Hi I am planning to come to the show at Wisley on Saturday, never having been to a cyclamen show before, anywhere, can some one please tell me what time the...
Ali, as a suggestion, if you can plunge your pots up to their rims in moist sand you get two benefits. One if you use it cuts down on the watering, (with...
Hi Ali, About the show: The staging starts at 8 am. The early morning entrance (for show purpose only) is on the left of the normal entrance and on the left of...
thanks for all that info, think you covered everything there. One problem for me, though I have recently joined the society, but haven't been sent a...
I think there is no problem. People at the ‘early morning gate’ will take care of you. Once in the exhibition hall, ask for Peter Jones at the table where...
