Cyclamen photo

Ina Crossley klazina1@gmail.com
Wed, 20 Jul 2011 15:47:15 PDT
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
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