Cyclamen Plant Care
How To Grow Cyclamen

Best gardening advice for Cyclamen Plant Care
Growing cyclamen as house plants is easy with these gardening tips
Learn how to grow cyclamen bulbs on your window sills to add color to your home when little else flowers. Cyclamen persicum comes in many beautiful colors and sizes.

Cyclamen are one of the most popular winter flowering pot plants for your home. Their flowering time from September to April makes them a favorite colorful indoor house plant that most other plants just can't compete with.

There are many beautiful cyclamen varieties with colors ranging from white, pink, purple and red flowers. Also the pretty heart-shaped foliage with the white spots helps to make the plant so attractive and sets off the flowers.

The miniature cyclamen are more tolerant of heated rooms than the larger varieties of Cyclamen persicum. They look very pretty if you plant several of them with different colors into a shallow bowl. You can use sand or expanded clay to fill the gaps between the root balls.

Cyclamen Colors!

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How To Grow Cyclamen - Cyclamen Plant Care Tips

Pink Cyclamen

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A lot of common mistakes lead to problems with growing cyclamen. The most common mistake people make is to over-water the plants which will lead to grey mould and rotting of the cyclamen bulbs or roots.

Cyclamens don't like warm rooms. Choose a cool room that is not warmer than 60 degrees F/16 degrees C. An east or west facing windowsill is the perfect spot for growing cyclamen plants.

After flowering the plants can be kept outside in a shaded spot. You can sink the pot into the ground if you like.

My Gardening Tips For Successful Cyclamen Care

Watering cyclamen: these plants need quite a lot of water when they are in bloom and very little water when they are not in flower. Never put water over the cyclamen bulbs. Instead place the pot into a saucer and let it soak up the water. Take care not to let the plant sit in water for longer periods.
Feeding cyclamen: feed your cyclamen plants every two weeks with a liquid fertilizer.
Repotting cyclamen: repot cyclamen every two years. Use a general purpose potting soil and make sure that the bulb sticks out of the soil a bit at the top.
Dead-heading: remove withering flowers and leaves at the base. This is very easy: just give a little sharp pull on the stem and it will come off without leaving a stump that will be prone to rotting.
Buying Cyclamen: make sure to buy plants that have plenty of new buds coming. The leaves should be firm. Leave behind plants with mushy stems and limp leaves. These plants will soon rot away.