A few plants from around the garden

Great blog and great photos. I'm new to cyclamen but interested in growing some in my small woodland - do you grow C. Coum. Thanks

What a truly beautiful blog. I have added it to my favourites.

Thank you Linda, very kind of you. Hello Dawnsaunt, yes I grow quite a few forms of coum but as yet it's a little early for the flowers. The edge of your little woodland should be just right for hederifolium and coum. I'll post some photos when they start.

Hi Another... I look forward to seeing your future pictures. Can you briefly say what the difference is between hederifolium and coum? thank you :-)

Brilliant pictures,particuarly like that form of C. Cyprium.Looks like it is going to be a good year for the Autumn Crocus.

enjoyed your blog, and such lovely photos :-)

A great collection of bulbs, Ag. Both the crocus and the cyclamen are well ahead of ours, in fact, ours are so late this year that I wonder if we are going to get a decent display at all.
Crocus robertiana is a little stunner.

Again many thanks. I've got some seedlings of Galaxy coming up Bjs but I wonder how much they will look like the original. I'll let you know. Dawnsaunt, there are many differences but the most important 2 are times of flowering and leaf shape. The first hederifolium flower in my garden this year was seen at the end of August. Usually get the flowers before the leaves. Coum will start to flower December/January as a norm but the leaves will appear first. The leaves of hederifolium are basically quite pointed like ivy (hence hederifolium = ivy leaved), though there are variations. Coum had a much more rounded leaf.
Both hederifolium and coum leaves come with silver and pewter leaves and there are many named cultivars of both species. If I had to choose one it would be coum but I would hate to be without either. You're right BA, robertiana is a stunner, I just wish crocus flowers lasted longer but you can't have everything!

Thanks for the explanation Anothergala, that's great. I've added your blog to my favourties for future reference. I wonder if Coum would be able to compete with grass around the edge of my woodland paths?

One of the nicest displays of C. coum that I have seen was in the grassy parks behind the colleges in Cambridge. They were growing under the trees. It was Christmas and the grass had been cut short at the end of the grass cutting season. I guess trhat they would leave the grass under the trees until the coum had largely died back.

I haven't seen that BA but coum has seeded itself in our lawn and seem perfectly happy there

Thanks for that info Bulb ..... Cambridge's parks sound wonderful. So I could strim under the trees and along the edges in readiness for the coums appearing :-)

Carefull, Auntie, you can do so in summer but our coum leaves have been showing for at least a month now.

Thanks for the warning, I think my grass is too long for them then.

I just love Tilebarn Anne & Tilebarn Nicolas. Lovely photos