Question: Whose root looks like a beet, goes dormant (i.e., looks dead) in summer and produces colorful blooms thru the winter?
Answer: It's the plant of the week, Cyclamen!
Cyclamens are welcome in the winter garden, bringing a lot of color, especially when densely planted. They're easy to clean up if you've got a mind for it. Just give a tug to the spent flowers and, voila, they'll look like this cyclamen bowl I tidied up just before snapping the shot.
I created a partial shade, evergreen border once that I was particularly fond of ... cyclamen mixed with maidenhair fern (
Adiantum capillus-veneris) and the smaller, low-growing azaleas ('Gumpo' series). Also put in some
Heuchera sanguinea, the old-fashioned coral bells with their rosy flowers nodding atop upright stems.
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