Hi, Recently Jim Waddick asked about the Cyclamen bloom sequence. I don't think he got a very complete response and I'm not sure that my experience in Northern California will be very useful since our climates are so different. But I finally had time to look on my data base to see when the ones I grow bloom. I first got interested in this genus when I saw all the lovely ones Bill Dijk had in New Zealand. I'd ordered some from a mail order source before that, but the ones and planted out were not very spectacular. Bill gave me seed and I've been acquiring seed from the NARGS exchange and others and now grow a number of different species. When I look on my data base I see that some species bloom the same time every year and others start earlier or later and some years I'll have plants that bloom much longer than you'd expect them to do and at a different time as well. A lot of the books I have suggest you identify them by when they bloom, but I don't think that would always work. I had a Cyclamen coum (since rotted) bloom one year from August to January and it's supposed to be a winter bloomer. My first attempts to grow these in the ground weren't very successful, but John Lonsdale told me I should be able to grow them in the ground where I live so as they get bigger and growing them in containers gets harder I've been planting them out and am happy to report they are coming back and blooming. They probably still bloom better for me in containers which no doubt has something to do with my low nutrient soil and tendency not to fertilize, but I can still enjoy the leaves. My list below shows times they have bloomed (some years starting earlier and some years ending earlier). Cyclamen hederifolium - July to Nov Cyclamen intaminatum - Jul to, but usually Sep to Oct Cyclamen africanum - Aug to Oct Cyclamen cilicum - Aug to Jan (but not always that long) Cyclamen graecum - Sep to Nov Cyclamen mirable - Sep to Oct Cyclamen elegans - Oct to Dec Cyclamen coum - has bloomed Aug, Sep on but usually Dec-Mar Cyclamen pseuibericum - Jan-Mar Cyclamen repandum - Jan-May, but sometimes doesn't come up until Feb or Mar Cyclamen balearicum - Mar-May Cyclamen creticum - Mar- May Then there is Cyclamen purpurescens that someone said had bloomed year round. It's evergreen and mine bloom off and on, not continuously, but I have had blooms between Jun-Dec This is a genus where you can have a species in bloom most of the year. Mary Sue