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.
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.
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