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Other Names:  European Cyclamen, Sow Bread

Group/Class:  Snowridge&trade Midi Series

Brand:  Syngenta

Description:

Indoors or out, this compact series features beautiful sturdy, bicolored blooms rising above small, marbled green foliage; an excellent addition to spring or fall containers; heat and Botrytis tolerant; easy to grow and low maintenance

Ornamental Features

Snowridge™ Midi Scarlet Cyclamen features showy lightly-scented nodding scarlet recurved flowers with white overtones rising above the foliage in early spring. Its attractive round leaves remain green in colour with showy silver variegation throughout the season.

Landscape Attributes

Snowridge™ Midi Scarlet Cyclamen is an herbaceous annual with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and should not require much pruning, except when necessary, such as to remove dieback. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Snowridge™ Midi Scarlet Cyclamen is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Mass Planting
• General Garden Use
• Container Planting

Planting & Growing

Snowridge™ Midi Scarlet Cyclamen will grow to be about 10 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. Its foliage tends to remain low and dense right to the ground. This annual will normally live for one full growing season, needing replacement the following year.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. This plant should not require much in the way of fertilizing once established, although it may appreciate a shot of general-purpose fertilizer from time to time early in the growing season. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.

Snowridge™ Midi Scarlet Cyclamen is a fine choice for the garden, but it is also a good selection for planting in outdoor pots and containers. It is often used as a 'filler' in the 'spiller-thriller-filler' container combination, providing a mass of flowers and foliage against which the larger thriller plants stand out. Note that when growing plants in outdoor containers and baskets, they may require more frequent waterings than they would in the yard or garden.