Cyclamen graecum
Greek sowbread
- Height × spread
- 0.1m × 0.15m
- Position
- Tolerates part shade, likes light shade
- Hardiness
- Average winter to - 10C (RHS H4)
- Flowers
- Autumn
Availability
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About this plant
This is hardy in warmer parts of the country if grown in protected sunny positions. It is much more reliable if grown under glass. It is September-flowering. The leaves are elegant and very variable. They can carry a range of beautiful patterns in paler green, grey, cream or even silver tints. The flowers are pale pinkish lilac and have noticeable touches of a rosy magenta especially noticeable at the base of each petal. The petals are held upright and are wavy and enticing, and of course, very small. This is dormant in summer but does like a small amount of moisture during this period.
- Flower colour
- Mauve
- Foliage colour
- Green, Grey
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Dome
- Height
- 0.1m
- Spread
- 0.15m
- Spread in 10 years
- 0.1m
- Season of interest
- Autumn
- Flowers in
- Autumn
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Cottage garden
- Sun or shade
- Tolerates part shade, likes light shade
- Soil type
- Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Average winter to - 10C (RHS H4)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Rabbit resistant
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Indoors
Feed with low nitrogen feed
Use a houseplant fertiliser that has low nitrogen content. Apply this several times while the plant is in active growth, reduce feeding and then stop feeding when the plant begins to fade, or winter starts.
Where food elements are listed as three numeric values on the label representing in order Nitrogen(N)-Phosphorus(P)-Potassium(K), choose one where nitrogen has a low value.
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.
Planting & general
Compost · Planting
Loam based houseplant compost for repotting
Buy container or house plant compost that is loam based if possible (i.e. is based on John Innes compost number 2 or 3. This contains more fertiliser and is better suited to established plants.
John Innes no. 1 has the lowest level of fertiliser and is used for seedlings and young plants, so is generally used where plants will be 'potted on' after a number of weeks.
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