Cyclamen in Australia

                        Cyclamen in Australia.

                                  Cyclamen africanum f Pink

                             Cyclamen africanum f album

Cyclamen africanum album seedlings, I am often asked when to pot up Cyclamen tubers, I can only speak from my experience and it is best to leave seedlings until they are all crowded in the tubes and you can handle them easily. Don't over pot them into a pot that you think they will grow into, best to under pot than to over pot as the tubers will rot with too much room around them. Pot up into a good potting mix with added grit mixed through to give good drainage. Established Cyclamen in pots don't need to be repotted each year, you can just remove the gravel and replenish the soil in the top of the pot with new potting mix and replace gravel, water and feed with liquid or granular fertiliser.

Cyclamen alpinum leucanthum.

Cyclamen alpinum leucanthum f Pink

                                 Cyclamen balearicum  

Cyclamen cilicium pink form.

Cyclamen colchicum Green Ice seed. Seed is no longer available from this company as the company has been sold.

                                  Cyclamen confusum Lydia Bartlet seed.

Cyclamen coum from Gordons ex collected seed Turkey. Above and below. The leaves have a sheen to them and flowers have a crepe paper look to them.

                                            Cyclamen coum silver leaf Margaret Taras plant.

       Cyclamen coum caucasicum with its wavy edge to the leaves.

                    Cyclamen cyprium with its distinct deep pink M on the lower part of their flowers .

Cyclamen cyprium Zonal leaf from Cyclamen Soc seed. I have since lost this one from over watering. Its hard to know how much water to give these tubers but better under watering than over watering.

                                        Cyclamen elegans Archibald seed.

A small drift of Cyclamen graecum growing in a sunny, well drained position in the garden. The leaves of C. graecum are beautiful in their own right.

                                 Cyclamen graecum above and below.

              Cyclamen hederifolium ideal for drifts, one of the easiest Cyclamen to grow in Australia.

                                                   Cyclamen hederifolium Ruby flowers.

                         Cyclamen intaminatum pink form above and white form at the back below.

Cyclamen libanoticum tubers kept dry over winter and Autumn then bought out from under the benches and watered as soon as the leaves start to appear.

Cyclamen mirabile with all its different leaves that are just as lovely as their flowers.

                                Cyclamen mirabile Tilebarn Nicholas below and Tilebarn Ann above. 

                                   Cyclamen parviflorum one of the smallest of the Cyclamen.

Cyclamen persicum another easy Cyclamen to grow in Australia in a sunny well drained position. 

Cyclamen pseudibericum, will grow in the garden with competition from roots from a shrub or Camelia to keep the tubers dry in winter. With the shrubs or small tree giving shade in summer.

Cyclamen purpurascens in the garden, needs a cool,  moist position with filtered sunlight.

Cyclamen rhodium Peloponnesiacum flowering now in Autumn when it should be spring flowering, so it's wrongly named, but I will keep it as the flowers are twisted and elongated and it is a lovely plant. Cyclamen Society seed.

Cyclamen repandum subsp. Peloponnesiacum Green Ice seed. Cyclamen repandum does not like to be baked by the sun, it needs a cool, moist shaded position and will soon form a drift for you when happy.

Cyclamen repandum forma Album

Cyclamen rohlfsianum above and below Craig from Gentiana Nursery plant and photo's, two different leaf forms. I struggle with this variety as I can't seem to get the tubers to any size before they die on me, but other members of the AGSVG grow it beautifully. I now have fresh seed from Fermi's plants that he donated to our seed exchange and they are looking healthy so I may have success at last.

Cyclamen x whiteiae hybrid between C.graecum and C. hederifolium. Cyclamen Society seed, a lovely form.

Two good books on Cyclamen is Cyclamen A guide for gardeners, horticulturists and botanists, by Christopher Grey-Wilson.

The second is the Genus Cyclamen in Science, Cultivation, Art and Culture. 

Our next meeting of our Alpine Garden Society Victorian Group is a zoom meeting by Cedrik Haskovec on Sardinia. Starting at 8.00pm Saturday 26th March, if you would like to join us please get in touch with Fermi and he will give you the zoom login details.