Mahalo Moment: Cyclamen

When we moved to Sac in 2004, we went to San Francisco around the holidays and were both struck by the vibrant and vivacious cyclamen in many of the planters along Market Street. Both Mr. E and I come from colder climates, so seeing flowers in full bloom in the midst of winter was quite a novel experience!

Since then, cyclamen have become one of my favorite flowers, and we have our own planter of them out on the patio (top photo). We discovered that they can be perennial plants if you let them re-seed after the blooms are done. I also recently discovered that they can apparently re-seed if you throw the seed pods over your patio fence!!!

Mahalo moment = wandering white cyclamen growing against the outside wall beyond our patio gate (bottom photo)