Fragrant Persian Cyclamen
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 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.
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