Bulbs: Cyclamen coum in bloom!, 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
The Maple would loose it's leaves for winter, giving light and more water when the Cyclamen need it. My tree is huge, but branches are fairly low, the built up bed is close to the trunk and some tree roots have grown to the surface in places, but this suits these plants as it keeps them dry in summer. If you could build a raised bed and fill it with a mix of gritty soil (mine was from a dug out drain so is very gritty), mixed with leaf mould that is perfect. If you haven't got gritty soil it may help to add some sharp sand or small stone chips or both. Mine has lots of natural small stones in it, this is river bed country.

I think C. coum may start to grow leaves before hosts are killed off, not sure though it would depend when you have the first frost, I have a raised hosta bed near it but not with Cyclamens. I have a felling the Cyclamen might get smothered in summer with hosta leaves, unless they have air room between it may not suit them.

This was taken on 17th Feb last year, it was a cold winter, this year so far is ahead of last year. That's the bright pink one, I have another paler pink on the other side next to the white. It's built up with recycled reconstitued stone bricks, some ferns at the edges and Polypodium australe nearer the trunk, it does well there and grows from August, dying back over summer.