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UK
/sˈaɪkleɪmˌɛn/
]
[ US /ˈsaɪkɫəˌmɛn/ ]
[ US /ˈsaɪkɫəˌmɛn/ ]
NOUN
- Mediterranean plant widely cultivated as a houseplant for its showy dark green leaves splotched with silver and nodding white or pink to reddish flowers with reflexed petals
How To Use cyclamen In A Sentence
- Their value as ornamental plants is contained in their intricately patterned and colourful foliage which ranges from jade green with cyclamen veins; chartreuse with carmine veins; and Sherwood green with silver veins.
- Under the dense canopy of a beech tree, it is possible to have different hardy cyclamen in flower every day of the year.
- Tidy up winter containers by deadheading violas and cyclamen and removing dead leaves from ivy and other greenery.
- You can use a combination of plants: primulas, cyclamen, heathers and ivy are all useful for winter colour.
- The white winter flowering heather and pink cyclamen had faded but were soon replaced by violas, primulas and grape hyacinth.
- Begin with anything pretty in a pot: cyclamen, primula, epimedium, ferns, ivy... Times, Sunday Times
- We may see fewer daffodils, bluebells, snowdrops and crocuses, because they like winter cold; and tulips, irises and cyclamens, because they will suffer from winter wet.
- While all this discussion was going on, a new letter and new photographs popped into the Guardian's letters editor's inbox: Robert Harrison and his son, having seen the article, had taken the matter into their own hands, gone down to Wadhurst and tidied up the grave on their own initiative: cut the grass, planted cyclamens, and cleaned the gravestone so that its inscription is once more visible. Maurice Tate: An extraordinary response for an extraordinary man
- In kinder climates such as hers, she says, pulmonarias, cyclamen, and primroses bloom early enough to pair nicely.
- Imagine interrupting a long, hot hike to cool off in the limpid water of a deserted Greek cove, lingering in a tiny, frescoed monastery - or climbing a mountain track where wild cyclamen brighten the verges.