Cyclamen coum

PERSIAN VIOLET CYCLAMEN

Cyclamen coum
PERSIAN VIOLET CYCLAMEN

Cyclamen coum is enchanting.
Simply taking your breath away with a mass of shell-like blooms in late winter-early spring.

Enchanting flowers 

Flowers range in colour from white, through palest pink, to rich rose pink and all stations in between.
But every bloom is adorned by a deep rose base – enchanting.

Just when you are desperate for colour

Cyclamen coum blooms are especially welcome, glowing in late winter-early spring – just when you are desperate for colour after all the gloomy winter days.

Gentle sweet scent

The blooms of Cyclamen coum are also graced with a gentle, sweet scent that wafts on the crisp airs of late winter.

Silver etched foliage

These dear little treasures also put on a dazzling foliage display with an array of silver laced leaves.
Because each plant flaunts a different pattern of silver lacing.

Beauty for months

So they brighten up some the gloomiest parts of the garden for many months.
With the silver etched foliage weaving magic from autumn, right through winter, until after spectacular flowering is finished in mid spring.

Perfect for gardeners with limited summer water

Then by mid-spring, the whole outfit disappears away to the corm, to wait out the heat and dry of summer, until coming back on duty with those lovely silver etched leaves next autumn.

Groundcover with dry summers

So it makes a perfect groundcover plant for gardeners with limited supplies of water in summer.
Because it is native to Turkey, the Caucasus and northern Iran, it is so very hardy and well adapted to hot summer climates.

Decorates under trees & shrubs for months

Plant Cyclamen coum in the Shade under trees and shrubs, either deciduous or evergreen.
Where it is highly valued as a ground cover.
Because of  its ability to tolerate long dry periods.
And because it happily self seeds new corms each year, to colonize the dry shade.

Rabbit & deer resistant

Happily Cyclamen coum foliage, flowers and corms contain a bitter compound that rabbits and deer find distasteful.

But adored by pollinators for winter nectar 

Bees are the chief pollinators for Cyclamen flowers, and they especially love the blooms of Cyclamen coum as they provide energy-giving nectar in a very lean time – during late winter and early spring. Both Honeybees and native bees find them life saving.

8cm. High in delightful bloom x 8cm Wide of silver spangled foliage.

SEED SOWING ADVICE:

Cyclamen coum seeds are best sown late autumn or winter.

First soak seeds in warm water with a little detergent for 24 hours, then rinse thoroughly in fresh water before sowing.

Now sow the seeds in a punnet on the surface of good quality seed raising mix.
Then lightly cover the seeds with sieved mix or fine gravel to a depth equal to the diameter of the seeds.

Next thoroughly moisten the sown punnet by standing it in a shallow water bath so the moisture percolates up to the surface from below.
Then cover the punnet with a dark lid, such as a piece of cardboard or black plastic.
Because Cyclamen seeds germinate better in the dark.

Continue to keep moist & dark at approx. 16°C. for rapid germination.

Most seed should germinate in about 28-42 days, but some may take longer – so do not discard the punnet.
Because it is a natural process for the seed to germinate at different times, as a cunning trick by the plant to give the seed a sporting chance to germinate into favourable weather.

Seed Count: 6 seeds per pack (Seed of this beautiful variety is very limited this year).

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