A tiny small offering of a vase filled with Cyclamen coum. A couple of sprigs of Hebe Topiaria accompanies flowers from different cyclamen plants which again have different leaves: some pewter, some patterned. The colouring of the cyclamen varies too mainly around the auricle.
There is plain white one , and pale pink ones. Yesterday afternoon I was gardening and I was drawn to one of the silver leaved forms in which the colour varied across the petal: pale pink with a darker shading around the edges.
The light was failing, so I had to use flash, but the flowers show up well against the black background. Today I shall be scrabbling around in two quarries looking at the complex stone structures but will be back later and hope to read everyone else's posts as they link into Cathy's anchoring post.
Will any of you be at tonight's Zoom webinar hosted by the HPS Galanthus Group when Brian Ellis will be talking? See you there.
Beautiful Cyclamen coum. The foliage suits nicely. I have some cyclamen flowering indoors but haven't tried any outside yet. Another item for the to do list. Enjoy the quarries.
ReplyDeleteThere are the August/late summer flowering ones and they spring coums, and many in between!
DeleteI think of cyclamen as your signature flower Noelle 😀 The one you describe with a silver leaf must be a special beauty. I'm really looking forward to the Zoom session tonight and wish we could actually see each other.
ReplyDeleteLyn Miles is sending some snowdrops to me today, ordered following the visit to her garden on the Snowdrop Study Day. Shame we shan't see each other, but then with all the others we may not spot each other.
DeleteMondays are not a good night for me and I don't know why they can't record all of their talks, like they did with Padraig's ��.
DeleteThose variable cyclamen blooms are so pretty, Noelle - have you noticed this before, or is this one of your less common varieties? Hebe is a good foliage plant to add to vases - is it reliable for you?
Yes I have had the hebe from tiny cuttings taken from the plant in my previous garden. These form strong tight balls all on their own. This one was selected for me when I visited Ashwood's nurseries where I met his cyclamen specialist. What a treat that visit was!
DeleteI love the colors in that cyclamen, Noelle! I think breeders must be developing a lot of new varieties these days. I hope that one makes its way across the pond.
ReplyDeleteVery pretty! I am enjoying your Cyclamen.
ReplyDeleteYour cyclamen are very pretty Noelle, and I imagine silvery foliage goes well with the pink.
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