I agree, Lynn, very lovely. Thank you Arturo, for sharing with us.

Thank you all. Sharing her paintings also means sharing all those plants that make life meaningful to so many of us here ATP worldwide, thanks to generous individuals that thought up a web that allows for such exchange: Dave Whitinger, Trish and all the initial charter members of ATP and those that keep following enthusiastically...

It truly is an amazing gathering of plant lovers.

The garden center got new cyclamen in. Can anyone tell if they are the cold Hardy ones?

They don't look like cold hardy cyclamens to me. I am growing cold hardy cyclmen here in Reno - they do well in shady moist gardens (but like it a little dryer in the summer when they are dormant). I planted C. hederifolium and C. cilicium. I can't remember when I planted them (spring or fall), but I think it was fall. Nothing happened until the following fall, in fact I had forgotten about them and accidently dug a couple up.

The cold hardy cyclamen plants are smaller than the florist cyclamens - just a couple inches tall. And the flowers are tiny, maybe 1/2 inch. I have only seen shades of pink, never red or white.

A good reference nursery for cold hardy plants is Edelweiss Perennials.

Daisy

Edelweiss has an amazing variety of cold hardy cyclamen, some with quite striking foliage colors.

I do have a hardy white cyclamen that I love, but most of mine are different shades of pink. I have C. hederifolium and C. coum. I would love to get some of the other species of cyclamen.

DaisyI said:They don't look like cold hardy cyclamens to me. I am growing cold hardy cyclmen here in Reno - they do well in shady moist gardens (but like it a little dryer in the summer when they are dormant). I planted C. hederifolium and C. cilicium. I can't remember when I planted them (spring or fall), but I think it was fall. Nothing happened until the following fall, in fact I had forgotten about them and accidently dug a couple up.

The cold hardy cyclamen plants are smaller than the florist cyclamens - just a couple inches tall. And the flowers are tiny, maybe 1/2 inch. I have only seen shades of pink, never red or white.

A good reference nursery for cold hardy plants is Edelweiss Perennials.

Daisy

I notice now cold Hardy cyclamen leaves seem to have jagged or spiny edges where florist cyclamen are round and smooth. But there are white cold Hardy cyclamen! http://www.hardycyclamens.com/...

valleylynn said:Edelweiss has an amazing variety of cold hardy cyclamen, some with quite striking foliage colors.

I do have a hardy white cyclamen that I love, but most of mine are different shades of pink. I have C. hederifolium and C. coum. I would love to get some of the other species of cyclamen.

• Cyclamen hederifolium 'Alba'
• Uploaded by valleylynn

I'm looking to buy that! Do they have pre orders now for spring/summer shipping?

Hey Keith, take a look at this sight, two pages of different cyclamen plants. http://www.edelweissperennials...
Once they are happy at your place, and undisturbed, they will multiply really fast making large colonies.

valleylynn said:Hey Keith, take a look at this sight, two pages of different cyclamen plants. http://www.edelweissperennials...
Once they are happy at your place, and undisturbed, they will multiply really fast making large colonies.

I don't see Cyclamen hederifolium 'Alba' for sale, those are the ones I'm looking for.

Hmmm, he used to have the white ones.
If you order from the other site be sure to get flowing plants (with white blooms). The color may not come true from seed.
My white form just showed up after years of the pink one growing all over my shade gardens.

Uh oh, is see they are sold out of the plants.

When do I plant cold Hardy cyclamen? Late spring or summer?

I would plant them as soon as I got them. I think I planted mine in the spring but they didn't grow until the following winter. I had forgotten about them, thinking they were a loss so accidently dug a couple up. They were just sitting down there chilling - not grow roots or anything. They started coming up last fall and now the plants are quite large. The flowers came up first and were followed by leaves.

I bought some from Breck's and Edelweiss. Breck's sent bulbs and Edelweiss sent potted plants. The bulbs were easier to deal with but Edelweiss has a bigger selection.

Daisy

I've planted them in spring and moved to new locations pretty much year round. Right now I have seedling coming up everywhere.
I agree with Daisy, Edelweiss has some really beautiful specialty cyclamen.

For the record, I peeked at the flower bed where I planted that Hardy Cyclamen that I thought was toast, and LO! I see tiny signs of life!

Wahoo, woofie what great news.

Hi I just got seeds from seedaholic.com of C. hederifolium, graecum and coum. If anyone has tips about howtos of the sowing, I would greatly appreciate it Its fall here now and I could if necessary start indoors first in a cool greenhouse and later move them out for winter cold. Our winters are wet but not too cold: average -3/-4 (27º/24ºF) only in the early mornings usually rising above freezing during the daytime. Summers are very dry and not too hot, so I want to give these a try. Thanks to eveyone.Arturo

Any companies selling cyclamen hederifolium 'white flower' tubers? I'm looking to buy

Here you go Keith. Edelweiss Perennials some really great cyclamen. One of his specialties. http://www.edelweissperennials...

valleylynn said:Here you go Keith. Edelweiss Perennials some really great cyclamen. One of his specialties. http://www.edelweissperennials...

He doesn't have the white flower form in I was looking for.