Description
This species hails from southern central Europe and is considered the hardiest of all of the species, having reportedly taken -35°C in the USA.
This is an early autumn species, which blooms as early as July. The pink flowers are delightfully and strongly scented of Lily-of-the-Valley (Convallaria).
It is naturally a plant of deciduous woodland over limestone and it needs the right simulation of this to do well in cultivation. Lime may be beneficial but try to provide a humus-rich, moisture-retentive soil with good drainage in light shade or filtered sun. The tuber should be planted almost at the surface and then the whole top dressed with coarse leaf litter.
These are tubers raised from seed of our small, isolated colony of silver-leaved plants. The leaves of the offspring are almost all patterned light silvery-sage markings however a small percentage of the offspring are solid sage green with just a few darker marks at the edges (none are ever 100% silver) as illustrated in our pictures of some of our own sale plants. The plants offered are checked, flowered, verified, hand-selected plants raised and chosen here. After selection they are grown on for a further season to make totally sure that they stay true to type.
for UK customers ONLY
NOT available for E.U., Japan, Norway, Switzerland, U.S.A. etc. Cyclamen are no longer shipped outside of the UK because of the high cost and excessive bureaucracy associated with CITES permits.
