Fwd: Cyclamen
Anita Roselle (Tue, 22 Aug 2017 12:48:56 PDT)

Hi Robin,

My email is anitaroselle@gmail.com.

I already have turkey grit and fine chicken grit. Would I mix it with pro
mix and some sand. I am unsure of potting mixes for bulbs and bulb seed.
Should I add some compost?

Clay beads are a clay material that is somehow formed into roundish shapes
and fired. With orchids it makes a mix lighter and more open at the same
time holding moisture and releasing it slowly , they come in several sizes.

I use lava rock a lot with my orchids, wonder if pumice is sold here on the
east coast. I don't throw out the very fine dust from pounding up the lava
into the size I want, I don't have much of that though.

I appreciate anything that will help me get up to speed with bulbs and bulb
seed faster, I feel like a baby in the woods, everyone seems to know all
these things. I look forward to the catalog, I love old ones they usually
have lots of information in them.

I know of Nancy Goodwin but I have never been down to where she is, I am
located about 4 hours from there. The soil is somewhat different here in
the mountains than it is down east. I would love to have a garden half as
lovely as hers. I was about to say that I do not have any conifers but I
have a sizeable Cryptomeria japonica that they would look nice under. I
will try that when they are a little bigger, I need to start seed every
year so I create a supply. Where is the best place besides seed exchanges
to get seed, I used to belong to NARGS but have let it go.

Thank you a lot,
Anita R.

On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 1:38 PM, Hansen Nursery <robin@hansennursery.com>
wrote:

Plastic pots might be better to start unless you plunge clay pots in damp
builders' sand. Pumice is thrown out by volcanoes here in the west so it's
a common potting ingredient mixed with other ingredients such as fine or
coarse fir or pine bark and other materials. Turkey grit would work as a
substitute as most cyclamen are not hugely pH sensitive. You can get it in
50-lb bags at your local animal feed dealer or farm supplier. I don't know
what clay beads are as I've not seen them. As the cyclamen tubers get
another year's growth you could put them under conifers in your garden.
You
won't necessarily need to amend your soil to put cyclamen in the ground.
Google Nancy Goodwin and you'll see she has tons of cyclamen in her garden.

If you'll send your private email to me at the address below, I'll send an
old catalog that has tons of information about where to put them and how to
grow. I don't generally advertise the catalog on the PBS site as most
members are aware of it. There are also some books and other information
you can find. If you can grow orchids, you can grow cyclamen!!!

Robin Hansen
robin@hansennursery.com

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