Cycleman - Has anyone planted them after flowering

Evening all,
What a wet depressing day here in Cork!

So every autumn/ winter we buy the lovely plant, the cycleman, and disperse the pots around the front and back garden after flowering I usually remove and dump however this year I repotted into plastic pots and held onto them.

Can I plant these out into open ground and will then die back then grow and flower again year on year?

Has anyone done this?

 

Possibly. If they are C. persicum then they are only hardy down to about -5 so if Cork is warmer than that all winter, then there is a good chance. If any of the other Cyclamen then yes.

 

I have always planted them out into the garden once they’ve finished in my pots. Some have disappeared for ever but I also have several which have survived and are now large clumps happily spreading.

 

We have over the years been given some lovely red ones. Planted them out and never saw them again. Actually this year all our cycs have been very poor in flowering.

 

I always plant mine out after flowering and now have them all round the garden. Some are getting far too big for their boots so might have to be moved. They like shady conditions with good soil and perhaps some leafmould. Don't tend to like hot, dry places which you probably don't have in Cork anyway. Lovely place, visited several times.

 

Definitely worth a try in Cork - I think it's quite mild there? OH has an auntie who lives further inland (about halfway to Limerick) and she leaves pelargoniums outside all winter and normally doesn't lose them.

 

Mild yes and boy is it wet. Today is such a day. Will plant these out later in the coming weeks

 

Lovely when it doesn't rain!!!