"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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| In article ,
| Charlie Pridham writes:
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|| Lucky you - it's cyclamen. Ours are coming out now. They're charming
|| little shuttlecocks.
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|| From the small leaf coming and the fact it is flowering now its Cyclamen
|| hederifolium
|
| My C. coum is in full flower now. The reason that it doesn't follow
| the 'usual' schedule is that it is in the rain shadow of the eaves,
| and thus is always fully dormant in the summer. Whether it goes
| dormant in the winter or not depends on the temperature.
|
| The leaf shape is the only way that I know that makes it easy to
| distinguish the two.
|

Thanks for all the info everyone, much appreciated.

It appeared under a small evergreen pine bush a few weeks after I'd cleared
all the weeds away. Gives me an incentive to keep the weeds down in future
now

-Neil F.