Sunday, January 29, 2012

Cyclamen persicum - a beautiful weed


As defined a weed is a plant that grows where you don't want it to. In that case my greenhouse is full of weeds!

Several Cyclamen species have a habit of seeding into the sand plunge, or seed pots or pots of other Cyclamen species.

Cyclamen persifum is one of them - I usually leave them out of laziness and because quite often they outlive a pot's original occupants.

Also with Cyclamen you do get some variation from the parents - this one has a lovely pure pink shading - a bit different from other plants I have.

As an added bonus many of these self sown seedlings are quite vigorous having undergone some natural selection to my greenhouse environment and routines.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Almost spring


It's a polyanthus rather than a true primrose, but it's close.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

New Year's Plants


Some pictures of flowers ushering the very early "Spring". Primula allionii Elizabeth Burrow, Narcissus romieuxii rifanus (it may or may not be, I grew it from seed), Viala reniforme (possibly better known as V. hederacea and an early Cyclamen persicum.