Comments on: Cyclamen http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/cyclamen-483 Stumbling self sufficiency in a small space Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:13:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: fn http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/cyclamen-483/comment-page-1#comment-14433 fn Thu, 25 Oct 2007 00:06:04 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=483#comment-14433 Hi Kate(uk), Your comment made me smile. Infuriating that the corms ended their life as a banquet for a squirrel. Thanks so much for a really useful comment. Our old cyclamen (lost under the shed) took ages to spread and I kept on adding to them. Perhaps the squirrels had opened a restaurant. Hi Kate(uk),

Your comment made me smile. Infuriating that the corms ended their life as a banquet for a squirrel.

Thanks so much for a really useful comment. Our old cyclamen (lost under the shed) took ages to spread and I kept on adding to them. Perhaps the squirrels had opened a restaurant.

]]> By: Kate(uk) http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/cyclamen-483/comment-page-1#comment-14430 Kate(uk) Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:55:34 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=483#comment-14430 The outdoor ones that bloom now are the variety 'hederifolium'. They spread readily if happy and will tolerate shade and dryish soil.Nice leaves all spring and summer too. I've found that the paler varieties of ex-houseplant cyclamen seem to survive life in the great outdoors better than the red ones and that their seedlings are tougher than the original plants. When we moved to Holland I left a large pot full of cyclamen I had grown from seed with my mother, that autumn I asked her how they were blooming,"that's odd," she said,looking out of the window." I can't see any blooms at all this year.But a large squirrel is sitting on the edge of the pot and that might be obscuring the blooms." She went down the garden to check and realised, as soon as she checked the soil, why the squirrel who had been sitting there was so large and why there were no blooms that year. He'd eaten all the corms. So, if you plant cyclamen,particularly in pots, plant them deep to avoid squirrels or be prepared to chase them off! The outdoor ones that bloom now are the variety ‘hederifolium’. They spread readily if happy and will tolerate shade and dryish soil.Nice leaves all spring and summer too.
I’ve found that the paler varieties of ex-houseplant cyclamen seem to survive life in the great outdoors better than the red ones and that their seedlings are tougher than the original plants.
When we moved to Holland I left a large pot full of cyclamen I had grown from seed with my mother, that autumn I asked her how they were blooming,”that’s odd,” she said,looking out of the window.” I can’t see any blooms at all this year.But a large squirrel is sitting on the edge of the pot and that might be obscuring the blooms.” She went down the garden to check and realised, as soon as she checked the soil, why the squirrel who had been sitting there was so large and why there were no blooms that year. He’d eaten all the corms.
So, if you plant cyclamen,particularly in pots, plant them deep to avoid squirrels or be prepared to chase them off!

]]> By: fn http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/cyclamen-483/comment-page-1#comment-14428 fn Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:41:49 +0000 http://www.cottagesmallholder.com/?p=483#comment-14428 Hi Richard, That sounds enchanting. I like the tiny ones best of all. Hi Amanda, Sorry my English is too colloquial. "Goes over" means when no more flowers appear. If you keep on removing the dead flowers more will buds will keep on appearing for ages. When no more buds come the cyclamen can be planted out of doors. I'd give it a few days to acclimatise to the change in temperature i.e. in the house, then beside a sunny wall before planting it in its final location. Hi Pat, They grow wild in Austria - they must look amazing! Some friend of mine have planted them beneath a giant, spreading oak. A patch of at least twenty feet in diameter. They look stunning. Hi Richard,

That sounds enchanting. I like the tiny ones best of all.

Hi Amanda,

Sorry my English is too colloquial. “Goes over” means when no more flowers appear. If you keep on removing the dead flowers more will buds will keep on appearing for ages. When no more buds come the cyclamen can be planted out of doors. I’d give it a few days to acclimatise to the change in temperature i.e. in the house, then beside a sunny wall before planting it in its final location.

Hi Pat,

They grow wild in Austria – they must look amazing!

Some friend of mine have planted them beneath a giant, spreading oak. A patch of at least twenty feet in diameter. They look stunning.

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