Cyclamen Hardy Autumn Jewels

Beautiful Brian, did you grow them all from seed ?

This is such a good blog, Bj.
The ones you gave me are all doing well too :-)

Beautiful little plants. I visit an elderly gent who has some Cyclamen growing beneath two apple trees, they're now popping up through the paving cracks and I've asked him if I may have some. Neither of us know when, or how, to uplift a few. Advice please ?

just bought un named pot , can u grow from seed . they are lovely this going in favs more info please ,and if you no were to get them from ta hun x

Shirley
You don't say how wide the gap is.approach it as if you were weeding,but avoid any thing sharp I would try the handle end of an old spoon push it down in a little distance from the seedlings and work along until you are under them prize them up out there roots should come out.if its dry water will make it a whole lot easier. Where you plant them depends on size First year has only one leaf and a white corm. Second year several leaves and the corm will be light brown these can go straight in the garden,but a marker is a good idea for when they loose there leaves
Let me know how you get on

CHristina You have bought species not hybrids.They have mostly bright colours Unlike the pastels of the ones i grow.
Have to go now will come back to you later today

Many thanks, Bjs, there are a few growing in the gap between the lawn and the paving so I shall try your method when I next visit, later in the week.

I love all of them. lovely collection you have there.

i agree soooooooo pretty ok thank b.js

Lovely collection and photographs....

they all look so pretty , i have 4 lol, but would like some which will come up each year so which are the best for being hardy plez brian

wonderful collection, such a pretty plant. I have just bought some today to put into my winter baskets with violas, hope they do well and then will pop them into the garden next spring.

San & Cranberry
I think people are mixing the ones I grow up with the brightly coloured ones on sale in all the stores and garden ctrs right now.these have altogether larger flowers that are in excess of an inch top to bottom.These are Cyclamen Persicum coming originally from the Eastern Mediterranean and with few exceptions start to rot off outside by December.
If grown as a in door pot plant they will grow and flower for several years but not hardy outside in the UK.( no matter what the label says)
The first one in the Blog Cyclamen Hederifolium is autumn flowering and rock Hardy, for winter Cyclamen Coum,for spring Cyclamen Repandum,and if you want one for \summer Cyclamen Purpurescens.all will increase from seed if they are happy.
Google them and you will find specialist nurserys selling them,C Hederifolium is offered in some garden Ctrs.

so the ones i have will die off thewn ,bj !!!!!!!!

Cristina
With out pictures it dificult to know what you and others are buying ,all i know is that the majority on sale are the mass produced one for flowering in the next two months outside.
B&Q alone must sell and kill hundreds of thousands.
Take pictures and i can say for sure.

thanx for info brian, will jot the names down and take a look online ;o))

i got them from b/q bjs. so i asume thats wot they are. i looked 4 ages 4 the ones that come up andspread . those are wot i want 4 my wood land bank. so am going to do as sandra and look em up.

Cristina.
Edrom nurseries have Hederiflium and Coum easy to google
Avon bulbs also have the above plus Repandum.
don't be to inpatient they may take a year to settle,and seed will almost catch them up !

ok b. will do lol x

these are lovely little ones Bj, I have the hederifolium growing, but they are hidden in the border, when would be the best time to move them, if it's possible that is ?

Grindle
The books usually advocate moving just before they start to make top growth .however providing you can move it with a good clump of soil attached to its roots i find it easy to move most times of the year ,care however not to break the leaves off otherwise that may set it back.I have had to replant two large corms this week the Badgers dug out and left on the ground to die.
hope that helps. B

:-) thanks Bj, I'm working on this border at the moment, so will have a go, seems such a shame I can't see the flowers