Thank you one and all for the various responses I have had for the camera problem. These have been most helpful. Thank you Ina in wet Auckland, although it is not cold. On 21/07/2011 8:37 a.m., bulborum botanicum wrote: > 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/ >> > >