CYCLAMEN COUM
This cyclamen is smaller leafed winter blooming plant. The great foliage carries aloft mostly pink flowers and can make a pink oasis under trees and lends great charm to the spring garden.. The plant self sows easily. They bloom in Feb March and even into April and have beautifully round dark green leaves.
Best in Zone 5-9
Height about 2-3”
Excellent in Pt. Shade
Well drained soil is important!
Naturalizes (!!! Even into grass) Ants carry the seeds and plant them willy nilly.
Works well in rock gardens as well
Cyclamen are among the most charming of plants, whether grown as specimens in the rock garden, or used as opulent ground covers under deciduous trees and shrubs, or kept in pots in cool greenhouses. The rounded leaves are usually a dark green but can have various green and silver patterns. The magenta- pink flowers, lend great charm to the spring garden. The flowers cheerfully withstand snow's coming and going, and often are in mass with the early spring daffodils.You simply cannot have too many of these.
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