Cyclamen cilicium
Cilicia sowbread, Persian violet
- Height × spread
- 0.1m × 0.15m
- Position
- Tolerates part shade, likes light shade
- Hardiness
- Mild winter to -5C (RHS H3)
- Flowers
- Autumn
Availability
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About this plant
This is a dainty autumn flowering cyclamen with leaves that are heart shaped with a variously silvered centre. The flowers are pale pink, with deeper carmine tips at the petal base. The petals are held like tiny sails above the downpointing 'nose' of the charming flowers. This flowers in mid autumn. It should be grown in a sheltered, but largely sunny spot in the garden, though remember to mark the spot. It is equally at home in a pot in a cool greenhouse. The flowers stand around 5cm (2in) high, and a mature corm can be up to 10cm (4in) across.
- Flower colour
- Pink, Purple
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- Yes, honey-almond
- Shape
- Dome
- Height
- 0.1m
- Spread
- 0.15m
- Season of interest
- Autumn
- Flowers in
- Autumn
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Scented garden, Rock garden, Cottage garden
- Sun or shade
- Tolerates part shade, likes light shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Gravelly soil, Loam (normal), Sandy soil
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Mild winter to -5C (RHS H3)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Ground cover, Rabbit resistant
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring · Outdoors
Apply mulch
As the leaves die back in spring, give the plant a mulch of leaf mould or bark chips.
A mulch is a covering that can: protect the soil surface from rain, heat and cold; deter weeds; provide nutrients. Organic indicates that material has vegetative origin e.g. manure, compost. Synthetics i.e. plastics, or stones are often called mulches.
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water during dry periods
For plants in the ground, when there has been little or no rain for a period of 7-10 days and the soil is dry, give it a deep watering and repeat weekly until there is a downpour of rain. Check plants in pots more frequently, especially in hot weather.
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