My Wilton, Connecticut garden did not have reliable snow cover. It did have reliable Cyclamen hederifolium, coum, purpurascens and fatrense. The hederifolium and coum seeded prolifically. However since most of the seed fell on top of the mother bulb, unless I came along and removed the seedlings to replant elsewhere they never did very much. That garden was superb soil, the high organic moist yet well drained we all dream about. Gentle slope to the west, but well shaded by five 100-year-old Quercus alba, under which were large black birch, Betula lenta, under which were Cornus florida. Single digit winter temperatures were common. Lowest recorded temperature in the years we were there was minus 7 degrees Fahrenheit (with snow cover.) And, to correct an error in my garden's description: we moved to New Jersey in 1997, not 1993. Must be the current April snow, rain, temperatures around the freezing mark that makes it seem that much longer as I wait for this flirtatious, come-and-go spring to settle down. Judy in the Garden State