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Cyclamen Corms - Description
- Variety: Pewter Cyclamen
- Quantity: Approx. 3 Bulbs Per Pack
- Fully Grown Height: 8-10cm
- Spread: 10cm
- Flower Colour: Pink & Purple
- Flowering Period: Late Winter to Spring
- Foliage: Kidney Shaped. Deep Green with White Varigation
- Sow Bulbs in Early Spring
- Spacing: 15-30cm
Cyclamen Corms - Uses
- Grown for their Winter colour
- Add to Winter floral displays & planters
- Grow as a bedding plant
- Ideal for pots & planters
- Looks great in an alpine planting scheme
- Grow with: Ferns, Succulents, Sempervirens, Sedums, Grasses & Dwarf Pines
Cyclamen Corms - How to Sow
- Cyclamens are hardy plants & will grow in cold conditions & shade
- Sow individual corms approx 1" or 2" (2.5-5cm) deep
- Grow in free draining soil
- Soak for 24hours before planting
- Prepare soil by adding leaf mould or farm yard manure to soil prior to sowing
- Plant in compost with pointed end facing up
- Water after sowing
Corms & Tubers
- Bulbs, corms, rhizomes & tubers are all essentially the same thing
- They are all underground storage devices
- Corms
- These are modified stems (that store food) with a basal plate
- They have a pointed top which can have one or more growing points
- Examples of corms include Crocus, Gladioli & Freesia
- Tuber
- These are underground storage stems with crowns (eyes)
- New shoots emerge from the crowns
- They have no basal plate & no tunic
- Tubers include potatoes, dahlias, anemones & daylillies
- Bulbs
- Bulbs are made up of scale - which eventually become the foliage & flowers
- The scales are modified stems that store food
- They have a dry outer layer - tunic
- Bulbs are Onions, Lilles, Tulips, Hyacinths & Snowdrops
- Rhizomes
- These are underground stems, that grow horizontally
- Buds develop along these stems that give rise to new shoots
- Examples include Iris, Cannas, Lily of the Valley
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