SQUIRE’S Wokingham aims to delight visitors to its garden store this month.
Their inaugural Festival of Cyclamen, a celebration of one of autumn’s most cheerful and uplifting plants, will offer a dazzling array of outdoor colour.
The festival showcases cyclamen grown at Squire’s West Sussex nursery, offering colour for gardens, patios and containers.
Cyclamen are known for delicate, heart-shaped leaves and flowers that bloom just as many summer plants begin to fade.
They can cope with a light frost, thrive in cool conditions and can flower through autumn and into the winter months.
New varieties, fragrant, long-lasting double-bloomed ‘Petit Moulin’, and ‘Amaze Me’, a hardy star that can return year after year feature in this first cyclamen festival.
Squire’s will showcase 12 varieties of the flower, each offering something special, from frilled petals to striking bi-colours and silvery marbled foliage.
The festival coincides with World Smile Day on Friday, October 3, and on that day the first 100 paying customers visiting each of Squire’s Garden Centres will receive a free cyclamen.
Sarah Squire, Chairman of Squire’s Garden Centres, said: “Cyclamens are such joyful plants.
“They arrive in autumn just when we need colour and cheer the most, as the days begin to shorten and gardens can become more muted.
“It’s wonderful to celebrate their beauty through our Festival of Cyclamen and to share their uplifting qualities with our customers.
“We are particularly proud that all of the plants in the Festival are grown at our own nursery in West Sussex, continuing our commitment to supporting British horticulture.
“We hope that whether in gardens, pots or on patios, these charming plants bring a smile to many this season.”
Good for pots and containers, cyclamens can create striking displays that bring instant cheer to front door areas and patios.
Their vibrant colours and compact size make them an easy way to brighten up the garden through the autumn months.
They pair well with other autumn plants and thrive beneath trees or in lightly shaded spots, making them versatile additions to gardens and outdoor spaces.
The Festival of Cyclamen runs until Sunday October 19 at all Squire’s Garden Centres.
For information, visit: squiresgardencentres.co.uk
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