Cyclamen
Hardy Cyclamen
These easily grown tuber-forming perennials offer a captivating ground-level attraction from fall through spring. Donning a lustrous finish and often intricately etched with silver, the mounded, dark green foliage is either circular, heart-style or kidney-shaped. Enchanting downward-facing blooms are distinguished by 5 reflexed petals in shades that include white, rose, magenta and lavender. Appreciative of good drainage, slightly acidic soil and dappled light, Cyclamen make elegant bee-friendly additions to understory shrub or deciduous tree plantings, rockeries, shady pathway edges and containers. They can be featured amid ferns, hellebores, Pulmonaria, Daphne, Saracocca and Styrax, where they may experience a summer dormancy and need minimal summer water.
Each $10.75
A joy in their own right, copious rounded shiny dark green leaves embellished with intricate silver markings make a lovely fall and wintertime display. Lolling on slender stems, a colorful flood of enchanting blooms ranging from soft pinks to rich carmine shades add further enticements. This long-lived AGM-winning perennial is undaunted by dry shade, appreciates an annual mulch and spreads slowly to form a substantial clump.
Blooms February–March
Size: 4" – 6" high x 8" – 12" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
Cyclamen coum ssp. caucasicum (P-2317)
Each $12.00
Distributed throughout the deciduous forests, rocky areas and scrublands near the eastern Black Sea coast, and upwards to northern Iran, this adored cold-hardy form is a welcome sight during the chillier months. The gleaming green leaves are described by dark centers, variable silver etchings and a slightly more prominent heart-shape than the species. Poised upon slim henna-colored stems, the enchanting good-sized blooms host slightly elongated reflexed petals that unfurl in pale blush or soft rosy pink tones. A moist free-draining nook with bright shade plus minimal summer water sustain its easygoing winsome guise.
Blooms December–March
Size: 2" – 4" high x 3" – 5" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
Blooms February–March
Size: 4" – 6" high x 8" – 12" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
Cyclamen hederifolium ‘Rose Pearls’ (P-1207)
Each $11.75
Fanciful, pretty-in-pink flowers dress up this Cyclamen’s marbled, glistening greenery. Interplant ‘Rose Pearls’ with the white blooming Cyclamen hederifolium and a marvelous autumn vignette is yours for the viewing.
Blooms October–November.
Size: 6" – 8" high x 2' 0" – 3' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
With dainty pink blooms poised above, a silver effulgence splashes across the surface of each polished, prominently veined leaf in a unique fashion, sometimes concealing any sign of greenery, while rich wine hues warm the undersides. Place ‘Silver Leaf Pink’ beneath Elaeagnus ‘Quicksilver’ to enhance the elegant frosty display.
Blooms January–February
Size: 6" – 8" high x 2' 0" – 3' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
The pristine white nodding flowers gracing this hederifolium cultivar show like comets against the deep green and very decoratively patterned foliage. ‘White Pearls’ serves as a clean and classy understory for Carpenteria ‘Elizabeth’
Blooms October–November.
Size: 6" – 8" high x 2' 0" – 3' 0" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
Cyclamen persicum var. persicum (P-2313)
Each $12.00
Indigenous to the woodlands, shrubby environs and rocky slopes found in Crete and North Africa, as well as southern Turkey to Israel, this tender, long-lived tuberous perennial has been cultivated since 1731. Broad, silver-patterned heart-style foliage fashions a vigorous, dapper dark green mound, which sends forth elegant sweet-scented flowers of white or rose-colored petals with magenta mouths atop lanky leafless stems from fall until mid-spring. Touted as among the largest in the genus, Fragrant Persian Cyclamen cherishes rich, adequately damp, well-drained soil plus bright dappled light when actively growing, yet somewhat drier conditions during its summer dormancy.
Blooms October–March
Size: 9" – 12" high x 6" – 9" wide.
Hardy to zone 9.
Prized for its fragrant dark purplish pink flowers, this variable widely dispersed European denizen hosts a gleaming bed of round silver patterned leaves with violet-imbued undersides. Cyclamen purpurascens adores moderately moist well-drained sites plus deciduous leaf litter, especially from Beech trees, and imparts endearing summer color to a woodland setting.
Blooms June–September
Size: 2" – 4" high x 12" wide.
Hardy to zone 5.
