It’s not uncommon for a garden to seem a bit bare from late fall through early spring, when very little is in bloom. Luckily, hardy cyclamen and hellebores can help fill this gap by providing color ...
A petite flower, who loves to cheer up the winter months, is cyclamen. This tuberous perennial comes in red, purple and white, as well as pink Winter is cyclamen’s season of growing and blooming. A ...
If I asked you to name a holiday flower, my guess is poinsettia, amaryllis or paperwhite would be the first to come to mind. But there’s another, underused seasonal plant that deserves attention.
Hostas are perhaps the first plant that comes to mind when you think of a shade garden, but to really make the space pop, consider adding this companion.
Last week, I mentioned pansies, cyclamen, primula, stocks and sweet peas, but now let's discuss growing them in more detail. Pansies are the most popular cool weather annual. They are low-growing ...
Five things to do in the garden this week: 1. Here’s a formula for raccoon deterrence from Tom Anderson, but I have the feeling it could be effective in warding off thirsty nocturnal critters munching ...
While recent storms make outdoor gardening almost impossible, except for the cleanup, indoor gardening can now take precedence. Consider cyclamen. They are making appearances at local nurseries this ...
Cyclamen are an extremely popular flowering houseplant particularly during the winter time. When grown successfully they can produce lovely flowers for a couple months inside the home. In this video I ...
Cyclamen persicum—mini cyclamens—offer the same eye-catching foliage and lovely heart-shaped flowers as a florist’s cyclamen but in a miniature package. These flowers come in pink, red, and white and ...
What a journey we’ve made in growing cyclamen as florist and nursery crops in the past 40 years. They’re now mainstay winter bloomers that we use to decorate our homes during the holidays and our ...
We just had that wonderful, soaking rain and I decided to stroll around my gardens to see how delighted my plants were. I imagined that they enjoyed each and every drop as much as I did. It is Dec. 10 ...