Beautiful Autumn Flowers
Signaling that summer's end is near, drifts of bright pink dainty little flowers almost seem to appear overnight. Hardy cyclamen initiate the coming parade of fall color 
and cooler temperatures with their lovely Autumn bloom. Year after year the perennial autumn flower show never fails to perform, blooming August to October with a handsome, attractive, foliage that lasts through spring.
In late summer a myriad of 4 to 6 inch (10-15 cm) flower stalks appear with buds quickly developing and blooming through the fall. The flowers are rose pink with a V-shaped purple-magenta splash at the base of each petal. The occasional white flowered form also blooms, rare in the wild, but now common in cultivation. White forms will almost always come true from seed if the parent plants are isolated from the pink ones.
Handsome Winter Foliage
Leaves appear following, and sometimes along with, the first bloom. The flowers fade and the stem falls and disappears under the new foliage. The large attractive leaves are glossy and varied from plant to plant. Leaves can be round, oval, or pointed with wavy, serrated, or smooth edges. Leaf color can vary also, from dark to light green, with beautiful fractal-like marbling of silver and white. The leaves remain through the winter to late spring.
When summer's heat commences, the leaves shrink and dry up, once again exposing the flower stems. They appear like tightly wound springs coiled 1/2 inch (12mm) in diameter with a round, marble-size, seed capsule at the end. The capsules mature and crack open to release their seeds by July. The seeds are covered with a sticky substance that ants will harvest, taking with them some seeds which they eventually discard, while the rest may fall about the mother corm. C. hederifolium spreads and self sows quite readily and after a number of years a colony will develop.
Each year the tuber or corm grows and expands. Left undisturbed for a number of years they can become quite large, over 8 inches (20cm) in diameter. They are dormant during the summer months and all sign of them becomes invisible, so be careful where you dig!