Would a 40' tall ash tree suffer much from a couple of steel screws driven into the trunk? I am hanging a galvanized farm gate at the end of the drive and need about a 4” square post for the non-hinge ...

Cyclamen: Which of these autumn favourites will last? - A look at the big, bright types and how they compare with daintier ...

Cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum) is a petite flowering plant with sweet-scented, small blooms on long stems that stretch up above the foliage. It is a tuberous perennial, meaning it dies down to its thick ...

Q. This is my first experience with cyclamen, and I have truly fallen in love with them. They are planted in four fairly large pots in my courtyard. While the flowers and leaves are beginning to ...

I love the idea of growing swathes of autumn-flowering cyclamen in my garden. Could you please share some tips on how to encourage it to naturalise? Sheila Flannery, Co Cork Autumn cyclamen (Cyclamen ...

Hardy cyclamen used to be the preserve of enthusiasts who swapped plants and seed with elaborate collectors' numbers and went on seed-collecting trips to Turkey. But now cyclamen have crept out of the ...

Most of us have seen the dainty pink flowers of Cyclamen hederifolium in gardens late in the year. Having seen it, few can resist trying to grow it. Essentially it is a woodland plant: in Britain it ...

I've put my potted cyclamen in a larger pot so its seeds can develop alongside, and tiny single shoots have emerged. Should I transplant them to a place with more light, and in what medium do they ...

Cyclamen persicum—mini cyclamens—offer the same eye-catching foliage and lovely heart-shaped flowers as a florist’s cyclamen but in a miniature package. These flowers come in pink, red, and white and ...

For the past few weeks, dainty pink or white butterflies have been hovering above the bare soil in some of my clay flowerpots. They’re not really butterflies, actually: They are cyclamen blossoms held ...