{"id":9871,"date":"2010-09-06T00:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-08-13T18:42:28","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T22:42:28","slug":"early-september-bulbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardern.co.za\/2010\/09\/early-september-bulbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Early September Bulbs"},"content":{"rendered":"
This is not a Hessea speciosa ( but the bulb may still be dormant underneath), rather, these are Cyclamen hederafolium seedlings, which ended up in this pot a few years ago. I should have repotted then in August, but forgot that they were in this but because of the label.<\/p>\n
I have many Cylcamen graecum types , and most are muddled since, yes, I lost the tags, these and the following shots are a bit of a mystery. Please share if you know any of these two smaller flowered forms below ( which I think I bought from John Lonsdale, since one it his pot.<\/p>\n
Mystery Cycalmen No. 1 Perhaps a ssp. of graecum? Or C. Cyprium?<\/p>\n
I thought that this might be C. wellenseikii, but it looks like a small C. hederifolium. This had one flower last year, and this year, two. The blossom are very tiny, smaller than 1\/4 inch.<\/p>\n
Here is some of the collection set into a larger pot in which a large topiaried Bay Laurel is growing in ( in this way, Lydia can’t get to them). Notice the range of flower size.<\/p>\n
This is not a Hessea speciosa ( but the bulb may still be dormant underneath), rather, these are Cyclamen hederafolium seedlings, which ended up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n