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Article: gardening Colorful cyclamens can brighten up a winter day.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- January 14, 2007
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Byline: MARY REID BARROW
By Mary Reid Barrow
Correspondent
DO YOUR HEART good this January and take a look at some of the beautiful cyclamens coming into the garden centers these days.
It is not just their heart-shaped leaves that will warm the cockles of your heart, but it is also the luscious colors. Many red and white holiday cyclamens were in the stores last month, but now growers are sending out an array of colors - red, white, pink and lavender as well as some others that will stop you in your tracks.
I've seen variegated red- and-white- and pink-and- white-striped cyclamen and white cyclamen with ruffled edges among others. A red- and-white-striped ...