"Jeff Layman" wrote
stuart noble wrote:
The dozen or so I have in pots and troughs have been sensational this
winter, so how do I keep them over summer? I don't really have room to
plant them out but, if I put them in a shady part of the garden, are
they likely to survive? Should I re-pot perhaps? Any advice appreciated

Well, it depends what cyclamen you are talking about. The blousy ones you
find in pots in the greenhouse section of garden centres will often suffer
if exposed to frost. However, most of the species (and their cultivars)
are quite hardy and are some of the best plants for dry shade -
particularly Cyclamen hederifolium. So if you have a dry, shady area
(under evergreens, for example), you will often find that cyclamens do well
there when little else will even survive, let alone flower. If you can't
plant them out, just put the pots there. I let them dry out over summer;
in fact, if you let them get too wet for too long, they will often start to
rot.


Dry shade is the accepted position for them. However, because we had a large
tree cut down the ones I planted under it are now in full sun in our open
front south facing garden and they haven't read the book. They get baked
every summer and are gradually taking over the garden even seeding in the
grass, and the block paving, there must be hundreds of little seedlings out
there at the moment everywhere you look. I will have to do something
eventually.
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Regards. Bob Hobden.
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