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what a brilliant idea bjs. added to my favourites.

Definitely an Oh Wow moment - good thinking Brian.

An excellent idea, Brian, and so pretty ?

Brilliant, I have cyclamen growing in a pot with skimma, like your idea too.

Great idea. These are a lovely colour.

Lovely idea and one to really think about. I need to put my deciduous azalea in a bigger pot first though. The cyclamen are gorgeous.

I love those little cyclamen flowers - I have seen a lot in peoples gardens - you say scatter the seed - my autumn ones were grown from a corm - so how do I get the Spring ones Brian ?- I would like to get them to naturalise with my snowdrops down by the wall under the shrubs -

They refuse to grow in my garden so no chance of them selfseeding, I 'll have to try your way, its certainly brightened up the pot...........

Brill , Bjs .

Looks great.

the spring ones are often Cyclamen coum.
I have lots of spring bulbs hidden in permanent containers they give me lots of joy too BJS

Jane
as Seaburngirl says these are cyclamen coum, on most listings they are classed as winter flowering but a lot depends on the hardness of our winter which month we have the flowers the true spring one is Cyclamen Repandum ,that one does not like drying out in summer so not a good choice for a container.
If you can wait for the seed to ripen in the Summer I will send you some

Brian that would be lovely I will sort the postage out with you - I love them they are so delicate - we have left the garden under our boundary wall to naturalise - the snowdrops love it and also Bluey our collie likes to socialise with passers by - so we have planted shrubs there - witch hazel - azeala and a camelia and miniature buddlea for the butterflies - enjoy your week - Jane

Pause to write down the name Cyclamen Repandum -
will check T&M catalogue.
Thanks.

Diane Long Acre plants have them listed as plants for sale. they are often in small numbers and go very quickly.
B

Just checked. T&M catalogue Page 183. Cyclamen .
All the year round flowering mixed. Thrives in the shade. HP. 16 seeds.
99p. TXO2900.

Seems about right. They hadnt space for the Rependum detail.

Now I just have to find some shade !

Diane depends how fussy you are, personally I would not entertain buying them mixed ,reasons being Cyclamen Hederifolium the autumn one produces thousands of seed
and the winter one C. Coum produces large amounts, C Repandum on the other hand in my garden produces far less ,And knowing T&M as I do there will be very few if any in a selection.
Just Looked at Chiltern Seed they have them listed about £4.00 dearer but you would be getting what you are looking for
I could go on suffice to say you plant Repandum deeper than the other so how you get on with mixed ones I am not sure
sorry they are a pet love of mine and I am going on.
B

Thank you Brian for this good advice.

Very good Brian...I love Cyclamen. Particularly at this time of year!

You are right about the dense roots, have just spent ages trying to get Spanish bluebells out of the roots of a deciduous Azalea in the garden. My idea was to plants my silver leaved Cyclamen seedlings beneath, but I am now toying with buying a pot of Eranthus instead for there, but know that Eranthus prefer an alkaline soil. Mmm! May be solution 1.

Siris
there is a bluebell seeded in the pot with the cyclamen it will have to come out ,have you noticed how far down the bulbs are ,think I am going to knock the whole lot out of the pot (don't think the roots it will fall to pieces)And see if I can extract it from the bottom then give it a bit larger pot I know it needs it.

Hopefully the bluebell bulb is at the bottom of the pot and you can pull it out from the bottom. I sometime think if the bulb breaks off low down, it divides next year into lots of smaller ones and then the problem is compounded.

Siris that's my thinking and agree about breaking off ,I shall waitt until the Azalea has flowered and then try.