Cyclamen make a most welcome splash of colour, with ne or more species in flower throughout the year. The flowers, with their characteristic reflexed petals, are in various shades of pink through to white, and the leaves are very often mottled or patterned with silver. A few species are not fully hardy, but many are, and left to seed themselves they can eventually make an impressive display.

Cyclamen rhodium is a lovely species from woods and shaded banks in Mediterranean countries, in this case Greece. Its flowers are rosy pink, the reflexed petals showing the much redder pink colour at the base.