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The Bulbs of Hill View Rare Plants - part 2


Cyclamen:

  • Hill View Rare Plants 400 Huon Road South Hobart Tasmania, 7004

      Drainage and good air flow, coupled with not overwatering, are the only requirements.The variants within Cyclamen, as seen in the following list; are vast and an endless joy of discovery. When these are happily self sowing in your garden, you will celebrate the day you purchased your tubers.

      If your soil is thick, add some course potting sand. Cyclamen, wherever we all live should be tried. If growing in a pot make sure the pot has extra sand (grit) added and resist the temptation to overwater them.

      The Cyclamen on this list are all home grown. So sucessfully in fact have they adapted to conditions here that we can reduce the price on most items.

      Cyclamen:

    • C. africanum Very much like C. hederifolium but with larger leaves and larger vertically ascending flowers in autumn. Needs some protection in cold areas. True stock grown in isolation from C. hederifolium with which it will readily hybridize. FS/1st $ 5.00

  • C. balearicum Small slightly tender spring flowerer. Pretty little white flowers and beautifully marbled heart-shaped leaves. Naturally small tubers. Very few FS $ 5.00

  • C. balearicum x repandum hybrids Repandum will cross readily with both C. balearicum and C. creticum. These will display a mix of characteristics from both parents. Most will be midway with pinkish flowers and silver clouded leaves. FS $ 6.00

  • C. cilicium Silver stipled roundish green leaves and long elegantly twisted pink flowers in autumn. Hardy and easy. FS $ 4.00

  • C. coum Plain leaf/pink flowers. Selected strain of this hardy little winter flowerer invaluable for the cheer it brings to that gloomy time of the year. Produces a succession of pink chubby blooms over a long period. FS $ 3.00

  • C. coum Plain leaf/white flowers. As above but the flowers are clean snowy white with a dark pink "nose". Very Few FS $ 3.50

  • C. coum Marked leaf/white flowers. As above but the leaves are more heart shaped and boldly marked in silver. A good form that originated at the famous Tinneys Nursery run by the late Jerry Munday. FS $ 3.00

  • C. coum ssp caucasicum The more eastern variant of the coum aggregate. Most of the stock comes from Moscow Botanic Garden's seed and labelled "Abschasicum". Overall these plants throw larger pointier flowers and have heart shaped leaves which are silvery marked. FS $ 5.00
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