Cyclamen Care for Healthy Blooms – Growing & Planting Cyclamen
Cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum) are charming, easy-to-care-for plants with vibrant blooms and heart-shaped leaves. With proper care, they add elegance and bloom for many seasons.
This ivy-leaved Cyclamen plant thrives outdoors in shaded areas. It has delicate pink flowers in fall and heart-shaped leaves with an ivy-like pattern.
Known as Eastern sowbread, this hardy cyclamen blooms with fragrant crimson flowers in late winter or early spring. The cyclamen foliage has attractive marbled patterns.
C. alpinum is marked by pink and purple flowers, a primrose scent and large green foliage. Its flowers appear from January to April, resembling a ship’s propeller.