wrote:

I’d be grateful for suggestions from those who grow Cyclamen in pots in
Northern California (Bay Area) or elsewhere with a similar lengthy summer
drought some heat, some abundant fog. C. hederifolium and C. coum seem to
take care of themselves in the ground even with summer water (the former
beginning to bloom this week before all the leaves have died down). But
small pots of other species baffle me. Do I keep them shaded and dry all
summer? Dry but in the sun? Can they take our sometimes abundant fog drip
from June through August? Do they need a sand plunge bed? And why did C.
cilicium put out fresh leaves and a few blooms two weeks ago? As the kids
say, “So, what’s going on?” In past years I’ve left the pots out on plant
stands, moving them out of fierce sun during heat waves and letting them
take what fog drip blows in from the ocean. I’m keeping seedlings in
their first and second year watered through our summer. Any ideas that
might work for a collection of small pots of these lovelies would be
welcomed.

Thank you.

Sylvia Sykora
Oakland, CA
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