Flower Escapee for Id please

pammosley · #1 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 07:46 AM

Hi folks, I think this has escaped from a garden. I know I only have the underside but can anyone help with an ID please.
Thanks for taking the time to look

Juliet1200 · #2 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 08:06 AM

Is it in flower now? It looks like a cyclamen to me, but I don't think it's the right time of year...

pammosley · #3 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 08:25 AM

Hi Juliet, yes it was taken on Sunday in Warwickshire. I knew I should have recognised the petals!
I wonder why it`s out at this time? I remember that last year I saw a Violet out in the Autumn & was told that it`s an insurance policy, perhaps it`s the case here as well?

artdemole · #4 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 08:39 AM

My cyclamen,white and pinkish always flower this time of year.

Dorts · #5 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 09:12 AM

Cyclamen (Cyclamen hederifolium) is surprisingly common and has been well naturalised in some places for well over two hundred years, mainly in the south and particularly so around London.
Dorts.

Hawk Roosting · #6 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Juliet1200

Is it in flower now? It looks like a cyclamen to me, but I don't think it's the right time of year...

I was at Wakehurst about three weeks back - there's a huge patch of cyclamen flowering under the oak trees by the entrance, quite spectacular.

Kew News - Autumn Cyclamen Are Flowering Now At Kew and Wakehurst

edit: I took a picture, but it didn't come out very well, so have one of the walled garden instead, which was looking amazing.

pammosley · #7 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 01:57 PM

Hi folks, many thanks for your interest.
I have just been up the local shops & they actually have Cylamen for sale now.
Hawk Roosting, welcome to WAB

Your walled garden picture is lovely.

Juliet1200 · #8 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 02:30 PM

I always thought they were winter / early spring flowering. Shows how much I know

Dorts · #9 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 02:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Juliet1200

I always thought they were winter / early spring flowering. Shows how much I know

There are many different species avalable for the garden, many are species from places like Turkey, Afghanistan, Greece, Bulgaria etc. Most are late-summer and autumn flowering, but the species Cyclamen coum is spring-flowering and is particularly lovely.
Dorts.

Hedera · #10 (**permalink**) 06-09-2011, 02:53 PM

There are lots of varieties of cyclamen. Some like C. coum bloom in the spring, nice dark pink colour. C.repandum with pretty pale colours in the summer. The ones in the shops now will stand outside unless it's very severe frost. I have some nearly ten years old which I bring back inside now and they flower til Christmas. The leaves are so pretty too.