Cyclamen seed

Doris_J · Post by **Doris_J** » Mar 12, 2006 8:02 pm

Here's your weird find of the day. I'm outside weeding in the gravel pathway that goes through my garden, and I start finding Cyclamen babies. The nearest Cyclamen is maybe 10 feet from this area. Can they shoot seed that far? Look how many I found.

KellieD · Post by **KellieD** » Mar 12, 2006 10:24 pm

Nope. Cyclamen don't shoot seed. The ants carry them around the garden, so you'll have them popping up in unexpected places!!

LucyGoose · Post by **LucyGoose** » Mar 12, 2006 11:42 pm

Awwwww how cute, little babies....

Boy, I would not have though of the ants!

Doris_J · Post by **Doris_J** » Mar 13, 2006 12:15 am

Those little stinkers! That would explain how they ended up in the nooks and crannies of the pathways. Good ants!

doublemom2 · Post by **doublemom2** » Mar 16, 2006 7:39 pm

Yup... Do you remember me talking about my 101-year-old gardening friend from Snoqualmie? She had cyclamen everywhere and she was the first person who told me that it's the ants who carry the seeds around. I have a lot of patches of cycleman now from Izetta, and I love them all. I just let the ants do their thing and enjoy the results.

Andi

insam · Post by **insam** » Mar 16, 2006 10:39 pm

cute babies!

Garden_of_Mu · Post by **Garden_of_Mu** » Mar 19, 2006 12:06 am

Oh Doris- if those babies are from a white cyclamen I would trade just about anything in my garden for just one. I've been trying to get the white for years ,but everytime I do something happens and it rots. Last time it was those #$%:evil:@* squirrels diggin it up every five minutes until it rotted. I have a couple of babies the ants planted for me from my pink one, but alas, I am still without the white. LMK if I can bring something to Andi's trade for you in exchange for one of those seedlings!