Robin, Do your Cyclamen go dormant? Here in summer-dry Israel they are dormant all summer, but if watered in cultivation they may keep leaves through the summer and even flower. Jane, Cyclamen are pretty toxic and are in deer and rabbit proof lists. Even the hyrax here don't eat them, so I can't imagine critters digging for them. My only pests on them are snails and slugs. I don't know what their metabolism is like but they eat stuff mammals won't touch. The chief scientist at the Jerusalem Botanical Garden told me that some of the large wild Cyclamen persicum bulbs can be very old - 100 years? Did he say even more? By the way, they grow natively in a pretty heavy soil. Shmuel Silinsky Jerusalem Israel _______________________________________________ pbs mailing list pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…