The cyclamen does not cope particularly well with drought and full sun. With the help of a few tips, you can keep the cyclamen over the summer and get it through the hot season.
How can I properly oversummer cyclamen?
To successfully oversummer cyclamen, place them under trees or bushes from mid-May and ensure moderately moist soil and sufficient shade. Check conditions at the start of summer and expect buds to appear in the fall.
What factors help the cyclamen survive over the summer?
Provideshadeandmoderately moist soil. The cyclamen, widely known as cyclamen, neither likes to be in the blazing sun nor does it cope with dry soil. If it's in the wrong place, that's exactly what the cyclamen can face in the summer. You should definitely avoid this.
Where do I put cyclamen for oversummer?
It's best to place cyclamens over the summerunder trees or under bushes. The foliage of the large plants provides shade for the cyclamen. It also ensures that the soil in this location does not dry out so quickly. Water the site regularly but avoid the formation of waterlogging.
When can I put cyclamen outdoors to oversummer?
You can put the cyclamen outdoors frommid-May. If you put the plant outside after the Ice Saints, avoid frost. The plant can go outside quite early. When the summer is hot, you should check again whether the right conditions are available for oversummering.
When should the cyclamen grow buds during the summer?
Towards thebeginning of autumn you should see the beginnings of new buds on the cyclamen. These indicate that after the last flowers have withered, the next phase of the plant's life begins. Then you can be sure that oversummering the cyclamen worked.
Tip
Use summer cyclamen
With the summer cyclamen you also have a variety with a summer flowering period. This species usually blooms from August to September.
