Cyclamen

"missing species"

Species listed in our main printed list but not found below, have already sold out.

To aid clarity, these have been moved to our 'inactive' section.

Their descriptions, pictures and details can still be found using our search facility, but we have no more left for sale this season.

This does not affect existing orders for these species.

Cyclamen africanum

Big polygonal leaves marbled with silver and sage green. Large, pale-pink flowers in early autumn.

We have had this outside since 1994 on a south-facing area, under sage bushes (sympathetic colouring) where it sååds without apparent knowledge of any supposed tenderness.

Cyclamen balearicum

Deep green leaves silver-clouded on the top, red below. Flowers pure white and lightly fragrant, borne in spring.

For pot culture but perhaps hardy in favoured spots.

Cyclamen cilicium

This is a lovely species with rounded, silvery-marked leaves held clustered together. These are present with the slightly elongated, honey-scented pastel pink flowers, each marked with magenta, on the nose.

Flowering is in the autumn, after C. hederifolium, with which this will grow happily although it is not quite as assertive as that species and increase is slower.

Easily grown, preferably in light shade, out in the garden here in a well-drained humus-rich soil with reasonable drainage, standard garden Cyclamen conditions in fact.

Cyclamen cilicium album

A fabulous, true, pure white form of the species raised from seed of the original plant found in Turkey in the 1980s.

This is true-to-name white cilicium and not the miffy white variety intaminatum.

Cyclamen coum album

The excellent winter flowering species is usually encountered in pink, however these selected plants, with mostly plain leaves, have pure white flowers and a plum nose.

Cyclamen coum Maurice Dryden

The leaves in this form are so heavily clouded that they appear to be almost solid silver, edged with the smallest amount of green.

Above the leaves are held good-sized, dumpy white flowers each of which is contrasted with a plum nose. These appear from January onwards. In effect a white-flowered, Pewter-leaf strain.

Cyclamen coum Pewter strain

In this glorious form the markings on the upper leaf surface have expanded to cover the entire leaf, giving a solid, dusty silver-green appearance, with just a thin, deep-green band at the very edge to provide contrast.

The flowers are a very intense and bright pink, almost a shocking-pink in fact. They are paler to the centre, picotee towards the edge.

Cyclamen coum Pinks

A hardy winter-flowering species for the garden with masses of flowers in various shades of pink, from January onwards. Plain green to zoned or patterned leaves persist throughout.

Cyclamen coum Red

Deep seedlings from our deepest red-pink parents, these are our darkest forms and although technically ‘pink’ are as close to red as this species ever gets.

Cyclamen cyprium

Endemic to the mountain ranges of Cyprus this is one of the most charming species in my eyes.

It has very dark green, gorgeously silver speckled and white marked leaves above which hover pink-nosed, lightly spice-scented, white flowers from September onwards.

Hardy here for many years, one of the best of the autumnal species for those who appreciate the finer points of Cyclamen.

Cyclamen graecum

A variable species with a range from Greece, Crete, Rhodes, N. Cyprus and S.Turkey. Equally at home in sunny, rocky places and pine woodland, from sea level to 1200m.

The leaves are infinitely variable and this has some of the most beautiful foliage in the whole genus.

Leaves can be deep green, from almost black to silver-grey, pewter, mid-green to lime or dusty sage, with contrasting blotches and veins of the same colour range and additionally maroon undersides and reddish teeth. The leaves are so good that most people forget that you also get splendid pink flowers in the autumn and sporadically through the winter.

In cultivation it is tender in N. Europe but with us it stands frost (though not prolonged freezing) if the tuber is deeply planted. It does very well under frost-free glass. It has thick contractile roots and likes a deep pot with the top of the tuber exposed at the surface. This can be top-dressed with gravel, but decayed pine needles look more natural, smell nice and may actually aid growth. Flowering is best if the tuber is kept hot and dry over summer but with the roots receiving some moisture from the base.

Cyclamen graecum album

Beautifully veined and patterned, angular leaves below pure white, fat flowers in October. The original discovery was made in 1980 in Peloponnesos by Manfred Koenen of Bonn Botanic Gardens.

From those original Greek albino plants a strain of true-to-type seedlings was raised by Manfred from whom we obtained our plants.

Cyclamen hederifolium

The easiest and most dependable of all of the Cyclamen, this thrives in the open garden or in light, even heavy, woodland.

It makes masses and masses of low, beautifully patterned leaves and follows these with heaps of pink flowers from August onwards until October and sporadically later than this.

The easiest of the hardy species and in addition, it self sååds prolifically.

Cyclamen hederifolium Silver Leaf

Predominantly silver leaves, some have a thin green margin. In addition it has strong pink flowers in the autumn.

Makes a superb display all year.