{"id":1093,"date":"2016-03-30T02:30:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T09:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2016-03-22T03:46:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T10:46:38","slug":"easy-cyclamen-houseplants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/easy-cyclamen-houseplants\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Cyclamen Houseplants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cyclamen1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1094 aligncenter\" title=\"cyclamen1\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cyclamen1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cyclamen1.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/cyclamen1-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Cyclamen are easy and rewarding houseplants<\/strong> to look after as long as you control the watering.<\/p>\n<h3>Watering Cyclamen<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Keep indoor Cyclamen moist but do not stand them in water.<\/li>\n<li>Water from the bottom and let plants soak up what they need<\/li>\n<li>If using the immersion method do not get the crown of the plant wet<\/li>\n<li>Keep indoor cyclamen in humid conditions by putting the plant on \u00c2\u00a0 damp gravel or special clay granules.<\/li>\n<li>Put the Cyclamen, pot and all into a larger peat filled pot and keep the outer pot very damp.<\/li>\n<li>Fertilize every fortnight if you want to keep the tuber for next year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Choosing and Caring for Florists Cyclamen<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pick a pot with good fresh leaves. If the pot end is heavy it has some water in the compost.<\/li>\n<li>Indoor or florists cyclamen are more tender than outdoor cyclamen. They are usually periscum varieties in bright colours.<\/li>\n<li>Twist off yellow leaves and spent flowers near to the stem.<\/li>\n<li>Keep cool about 50-60\u00c2\u00b0 and away from direct sun and strong drafts.<\/li>\n<li>Do not let them freeze<\/li>\n<li>Soft leaves are a sign of needing water or having too much water. If the later stop watering take out of the pot to help drying and leave to refresh itself before repotting.<\/li>\n<li>Plants should flower through December and January then can be rested on their sides until autumn to flower next year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclamen are easy and rewarding houseplants to look after as long as you control the watering. Watering Cyclamen Keep indoor Cyclamen moist but do not stand them in water. Water from the bottom and let plants soak up what they need If using the immersion method do not get the crown of the plant wet Keep indoor cyclamen in humid conditions by putting the plant on \u00c2\u00a0 damp gravel or special clay granules. Put the Cyclamen, pot and all into&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/easy-cyclamen-houseplants\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,45],"tags":[277,71,69,70],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-house-greenhouse-plants","tag-flowers","tag-houseplant","tag-indoor","tag-potplant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}