Winter has come, and after several weeks of rains, Cyclamens started to bloom in a local forest. For now only few, most of them has only leaves for now, massive bloom will in January-February.

Very pretty. And so healthy looking. How wonderful to come upon them in the wild.

valleylynn said:Very pretty. And so healthy looking. How wonderful to come upon them in the wild.

We have grown here in the forest in huge amounts, it is the most common flower in the forest. Next time I will be in the forest, I will snap few pictures.

here few more from last year.

Most flowers plants in the wild are protected species, when a massive bloom is observed, a lot of people drive to the forest to make a pictures.

I look forward to seeing photos from this years blooming.

@valleylynn bloom started

Ron, thank you so much for posting the beginning of bloom. They are beautiful. I wonder if this is C. persicum?
What are your winters like?

That is so cool that you have Native cyclamens!!! I wish there were some in my area....😝

Sadly we don't have a native cycleman in the U.S. C. hederifolium and coum have naturalized here in my area of the Pacific Northwest. They even come up in the lawn at my place.

I wish I had as my=uch of an abundance as you Lynn!!! I have one big plant that I got from my grandma and a little one from home depot....

The ones here on my place were here when we move here in 1999. And they just keep multiplying.

valleylynn said:Ron, thank you so much for posting the beginning of bloom. They are beautiful. I wonder if this is C. persicum?
What are your winters like?

I beleave so, here some information on a local site (you can use google translate to translate to English)

https://www.wildflowers.co.il/...

Average winter temperature is about 50-55F, but it can go sometimes at night almost to freezing (specially in mountains over 2000 feet, were Jerusalem is located). Here snow is a very rare event (only in ski resort in Hermon we have stable snow for about 3-4 month), in winter it is only a lot of rain and graupel. If we have s snow, and it can hold on the ground after a night for more that few inches, everything is stopped, till snow is cleared from the roads.

We seldom get snow, but when we do it is something to remember. We have in past years got down to 10°F. Now that was really something to remember. Frozen pipes everywhere. None of this seemed to bother the cyclamen.
For me they are such a sweet thing to come upon in the fall/winter, and again in the spring. I will always love them.