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.
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 $10.75
Blooms February–March
Size: 4" – 6" high x 8" – 12" 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.
Cyclamen hederifolium ‘White Pearls’ (P-1206)
Each $11.75
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.
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.
