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16-03-2003, 03:44 PM

(paghat) expounded:

Interesting. Here they majority are winter-bloomers. I'd wondered when
would be their bloom time in vastly colder zones; Grey-Wilson speaks of
the super cold-hardiness especially of C. hederifolium, but doesn't ammend
his British bloom time assessments for the colder zones. Here in Zone 8,
C. coum sometimes blooms twice so it's autumn AND late winter.

I've got a variety of hardy cyclamen out there, and they're in bloom
from October til the hard freeze, and then again during warm spells in
January and February. No blooms out there this year, they've been
under snowcover now since mid-January. They've been out there for at
least 15 years' I've got seedlings coming up in the lawn next to their
site all the time that I move into new areas.

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Ann, Gardening in zone 6a
Just south of Boston, MA
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