A few Summers ago I was repotting some of my cyclamen seedlings, I found that some of the corms were soft to the touch, assuming that they were rotten I threw them in the compost. Later that Summer at a time when the cyclamen were coming out of dormancy, I was surprised to find one of the rejected corms growing quite happily on top of the compost, I potted it up and it has grown on to be one of my favourite plants.
I keep careful records on the plants that I grow from seed, each of there labels recording where the seed originated, when it was sown and repotted, however my favourite Cyclamen bears the label that says 'Found in Compost'.
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How lovely! When did you photograph this?
Mm, very nice flower) i like that soft colour.. is very pleasant..
Thanks Rosemary, I did photograph this, I can't take too much credit, the camera did most of the work.
Hi Ds. thanks, I should also mention that the foliage of this plant is also spectacular.
Some of my favourie plants have been 'volunteers' from the compost bin. Currently on the window sill I have one avocado, two lemon trees and for a while I had an English walnut tree but it failed to thrive. I also had a raspberry cane which is now planted in the garden and a peach tree which survived 3 winters outside in a pot before I donated it to the gardens at Sorauren Park. It seems that the compost bin is an ideal incubator!
Hi CallieK,
A reminder that composts are living things.
Hi Barry,
If we manage to meet this summer, I can give you some plants C. coum and C.hederifolium. I have to thin out some that were planted in the garden.
Isn't that funny.. I once did that with a salvia patens, tossed it because it looked absolutely dead. Then later in the season I saw it growing happily in the compost... You can never be too sure I guess...
Hi candc,
It's amazing how strong the will to live is on some plants.
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