Since they germinate best when fresh, and they ripen in early July or thereabouts, I'm thinking they self-sow best in places with moderate summer-to-fall temps (not baking hot), plenty of moisture during that period, and either fairly mild winters (PNW) or plenty of snow cover (upstate NY). Upstate NY does have an unusual climate for growing semi-hardy plants. When I lived there, I had cardiocrinums, several eucomis, most of the summer-rainfall kniphofia species, thousands of Cyclamen coum and hederifolium, amazing primulas, and - well, a lot of wonderful stuff. Here in Massachusetts, with its erratic snow cover and sandier and more acid soils, I can only grow a tiny subset of what I used to grow. The one up side I note is that Cyclamen purpurascens does much better here, and self sows with an abandon matched only by the squirrels' diligence in unearthing the seedlings. On the whole, though, this climate is more of a challenge. Ellen On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 7:53 PM, gentian21 <gentian21@volo.net> wrote: > What i would like to know is how to get cyclamen to self sow at all. > > > Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ > -- Ellen Hornig 212 Grafton St Shrewsbury MA 01545