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.
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.
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