2024 Update–I gave these seedlings to sister Cate and she kept them going for a year, then passed them back to me when she moved to the Midwest. I moved them to a planter on the patio and a squirrel immediately dug them up and eventually stole them. So, they are no longer, sadly. 6.23.24

I’m posting my plants-a-day ahead so that I don’t get behind! The day two plant is a Cyclamen coum seedling from seeds started in 2018. I wasn’t hopeful that these seeds would germinate at all, and I just put the pot in the greenhouse and ignored it. Then, one day, there was a leaf! That was last January. This year, the plant (which might be more than one plant) looks pretty amazing.

Because of my success with these seeds, I ordered some more cyclamen seeds from the Bulb Society bulb/seed exchange and I received the seeds of Cyclamen graecum, which I will treat the same way and hope for similar results.

Cyclamen do well in the garden here in Seattle, but I may have a tough time letting them loose in the garden. They seem so precious and delicate. Maybe if I end up with a dozen of them some of them will find there way outside.