I will send Cyclamen seeds later to the pbs Roland 2011/7/20 Peter Taggart <petersirises@gmail.com>: > Hello Ina, > If you are fairly dry in summer or could plant them in a dry place you could > try several other species of Cyclamen, with different seasons. Rhodense or > creticum, libanoticum, graecum and rolfsianum might be options if you could > get seeds. > Peter > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Ina Crossley <klazina1@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello Boyce >> >> I don't know much about Cyclamen. I tried the bigger kind and it didn't >> keep on going over the years. This is a littler one, and as far as I >> can see on the PBS yes, it is the Cyclamen persicum. Also now available >> in the local plant nurseries. >> >> Mine are where they get more sun than shade, and what sun they get is >> not over the hotter part of the day. They get much more sun in the >> summer, but then there are few showing. >> >> Very occasionally we get a frost, although those who get real frosts >> would probably laugh at ours. It may go down to just below 0 degrees >> C. The grass may look a bit white, which melts when the day arrives. >> With of course the matching white on some of the plants. >> >> During the day, the temperature can go up to about 17 degrees C. Which >> is a mid winter temperature. Of course there are days it gets nowhere >> near that. 10-11 degrees is COLD! Particularly when there is the icy >> wind blowing from the South. Which would lower the real temperature >> considerably. I don't know why the temperature is not given which >> includes the wind chill factor. >> >> I do wish though, that someone on the PBS who takes photos, could tell >> me why the photos come out dark for the background. As it takes time to >> lighten them and as it was an expensive camera originally, it should >> have a better result. >> >> I bought it because I wanted to be able to take better close up photos >> of my plants and flowers. >> >> Ina from cloudy Auckland, no rain though yet today. >> >> On 20/07/2011 9:05 a.m., Boyce Tankersley wrote: >> > Ina: >> > >> > Wonderful photographs, beautiful garden; and I am very envious of your >> > Cyclamen and their reseeding. Are these Cyclamen persicum (florist) >> types? >> > >> > What are the winter extremes in Auckland? >> > >> > Boyce Tankersley >> > from Hot and humid Chicago >> > _______________________________________________ >> > pbs mailing list >> > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> pbs mailing list >> pbs@lists.ibiblio.org >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php >> http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >> > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- R de Boer La Maugardiere 1 F 27260 EPAIGNES FRANCE Phone./Fax 0033-232-576-204 Email: bulborum@gmail.com