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Cyclamen Corms - Description
- Qty: 3 Cyclamen Bulbs
- Fully Grown Size: 10cm - 15cm
- In Bloom: August - October
- Flower Colour: Soft Pink
- Sow: August - October
- Variety: Cyclamen hederifolium
- Ivy-Leaved Cyclamen
- Cyclamen hederifolium, also known as the Ivy-Leaved Cyclamen, is a beautiful hardy perennial producing elegant soft pink, reflexed flowers that appear before its decorative marbled foliage. Flowering from late summer into autumn, it brings welcome colour to shaded gardens when many other plants have finished blooming.
Cyclamen Corms - Uses
- Provides beautiful colour from late summer into autumn.
- Ideal for woodland gardens, shaded borders and beneath deciduous trees.
- Perfect for rockeries, raised beds and containers.
- Excellent for naturalising in sheltered garden areas.
- Plant in groups to create attractive carpets of flowers.
- Beautiful ornamental foliage provides interest throughout winter.
- Suitable for cottage gardens and shaded pathways.
- Returns reliably every year, gradually forming larger flowering colonies.
Cyclamen Corms - How to Sow
- See our blog on how to sow and care for bulbs.
- Choose a partially shaded or shaded planting location.
- To prepare planting hole:
- Use a garden hand trowel or hand fork.
- Depth: Plant tubers approximately 3cm - 5cm below the soil surface.
- Spacing: 10cm - 15cm apart.
- Soil: Fertile, humus-rich, well-drained soil. Improve heavy soils with compost or leaf mould before planting.
- Plant tubers with the slightly rounded side facing down and the growing points facing upwards.
- Cover gently with soil and firm lightly.
- Water after planting if conditions are dry.
- Feed with poultry manure or a balanced fertiliser during active growth.
- Allow foliage to die back naturally in late spring before the bulbs become dormant.
- Leave tubers undisturbed to establish and produce increasingly impressive displays each year.
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