My Still Has Leaves......

It's in a Pot Though.....

Sorry For The Post Hijack ellatiarella.....

ninecrow - is yours C hederifolium?

Yes

Was Living Outside When Mum Dug it Up For Me.......

It Was Granny's..... She's Sadly Long Gone Now......

Well, I am surprised. Mine are not visible at all the moment. Maybe you're further north than me.

Guess it's Because it's in a Pot Inside......

***SHRUG***

Aha - it's indoors is it? Mine are out in the garden.

Mine is indoors and I have a few leaves.

Is there a reason people keeping are C hederifolium inside? It's a hardy perennial.

It is awfully pretty. The flowers are so delicate that they can easily be overlooked in the garden. . .

floral_uk Where I live it is very hot and humid. We don't have much of a winter either. It just does better indoors growing in the window.

I Live in a Rented Flat and This Cyclamen Means Too Much To Risk Putting it Outside......

Here they are in early September. Note no leaves yet. The pink ones:

And the white ones:

If planted outside and allowed to do its thing, it will produce many offsets. So there shouldn't be any issues about losing a sentimentally important plant - it will just make more!! They also transplant extremely easily - I rent as well and dig up my cyclamen when I move and take them with me!

These are also native to some pretty warm climates - Turkey and the southern Mediterranean - so will tolerate very mild winters. And since they are dormant in summer when humidity in the northern hemisphere is most common, that should not be a concern either. IME, it takes a lot more effort to maintain a hardy outdoor plant indoors than it does to just plant it outside where it belongs and with the conditions it prefers.

gardengal - I have tried them outdoors. We have 100% humidity here for days on end and temps of 100+ for days on end. The corm turns to mush. I see you are in the Pacific Northwest. I am in the deep south almost on the Gulf coast. As for ninecrow, I totally understand not wanting to take a chance on losing a plant that is so precious.

mm, I don't wish to appear argumentative but neither high temps nor high humidity would cause the corms to turn to mush. That is much more a factor of excess soil moisture, either due to excessive irrigation or heavy rainfall. These are bulbs best suited to dry shade, typically located under the canopies of shade trees and with significant root competition, but also present under many other conditions. And like virtually any bulbous plant, they need a very well drained soil

btw, they DO grow in the South.......one of the largest and better unusual plants mail order nurseries is located in North Carolina and they offer a broad range of hardy cyclamen.....which are grown on site.

btw, there are a number of locations in the south where th temps are moderate enough so that florist'c cyclamen or C. persicum - perhaps the least hardy of the genus - survives outdoors year round.

If you look at my pictures you'll see the Cyclamen are under Hellebores, ferns and a birch tree. Although we get ample rain year round the soil there is actually fairly dry. C hederifolium is one of the few plants which will grow right under a tree canopy. I would also suggest buying them as growing plants rather than as dry corms in a bag. Those often fail.

gardengal - I am not reading your comment as argumentative, but I have to disagree with you that where I live cyclamen would survive outside. I am not the only gardener in my area who has experienced loss of cyclamen as well as many other plants that are supposed to do well outdoors. As for excess rainfall, it is not unusual to go 2 months without rain in the summer where I live. As a matter of fact, we went almost 3 months last year with no appreciable rain. I did not buy corms In a bag but rather ordered my plants. Also, my yard has lots of white pines. Those trees suck every bit of moisture out of the ground. As I said, I live in the deep south almost on the MS gulf coast. Totally different conditions than a place like North Carolina.

Wouldn't this plant make offsets in a pot too? I have had amaryllis, gladiolus, rain lilies, and asiatic lilies all make offsets or new plants in the same pot for years. but of course, it's not this cyclamen, so I was just curious about it as far as making offsets.

Cyclamen hederifolium doesn't make offsets. The original corm increases steadily in size. Old ones can be as large as a small dinner plate. It also self seeds once it's happy. The seeds are often spread about by ants. In a pot it couldn't increase much by either strategy because there wouldn't be enough room.

I have to agree with floral's clarification of my misuse of the terminology "offsets" when I really meant seedling plants. A happy and well established planting of hardy cyclamen in the ground will seed quite freely, often helped by squirrels and other small garden visitors as well as ants in spreading the seed around. Any new corms will be the result of seed dispersal rather than the generation of baby bulbs/bulblets/cormlets/whatever from the mother plant.

Granny's Cyclamen

As of Now.....

Hmm, I'm in Arkansas and mine won't make an appearance till at least end of the month...it must be the growing indoors thing.

ninecrow(England) - glad to see your granny's cyclamen blooming

Mine are in bloom now outdoors.

Thanks maylingsmom

Would They Cross With a Florist Cyclamen?

Mine are also, floral :-)

Mine is now just showing the very first tiny buds. I must be in a different zone, grinnnn. At least it survived. Time to get a few more in September or so. I love them, but they have not been the greatest success here. I have improved my drainage in the meantime, so I am ready to take another chance on them. With more than one, I might also get seedlings. I also tried C. coum, but I have a feeling it has disappeared on me. I will know for sure later, I guess.

Some of Granny's Cyclamen in Mum's Garden...... I Had a Corm and Mum Had One.....