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Cheerful West Haven home offers space, charm Open House from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday
1417 Lafayette Avenue
This West Haven gem offers a whopping 2,190 square-feet of living space! Including four bedrooms three full baths, this family-friendly home combines roominess with craftsmanship quallity details like french doors, built-ins, crown moldings, hardwood floors and more. The pretty kitchen with adjoining sunroom will draw family and friends to relax.
You’ll love the shady yard – enjoy it from the covered attached porch. Extra storage available in the double detached garage. This home has been well-loved and well-cared for – it’s ready for a new family. See the beauty of this home for yourself, from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at an open house. Or, for more information or a private tour, contact nancy Liipfert associates, Inc. at 252.937.7000.
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Spacious formal dining room.
Family-friendly eat-in kitchen.
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Living room with fireplace and built-ins.
Cyclamen look dainty, but are hardy year-round farm.com), but once you have some plants, For the past few weeks, new ones are dainty pink or white butleafy show. The leaves are easy enough to terflies have been hovering heart-shaped, but rounded propagate. Sometime after above the bare soil in some rather than pointed at the bloom, surely while the of my clay flowerpots. end, with silvery mottling plants are dormant, you’ll They’re not really butpainted over the dark green note seed capsules, each terflies, actually: They are background. The silvery de- about the size of a small cyclamen blossoms held sign differs from one plant marble, lying on the soil aloft on thin flower stalks. to the next. surface. These seed capThese are not the cyclaThe leaves last for sules, like the flowers, are mens you typically find ofweeks, perhaps all winter still tethered to the soil, this fered in florist shops, those if temperatures are not too time by stalks now coiled plants with bold flowers frigid. So there’s really no like springs. and lush foliage. My cyclatime of year when the plant The seeds would likely mens are among the few is unattractive. It’s just that self-sow, but to multiply species of so-called “hardy” in summer, when the plants your holdings more decyclamens (Cyclamen go dormant, the plant has liberately, pop the seeds hederifolium, for example). nothing at all to show – no out of the dry capsules. They differ from florists’ leaves or flowers. Books and seed catalogs cyclamens not only in their Hardy cyclamens are offer elaborate instructions diminutive leaves and flow- as easy to grow as florists’ for germinating cyclamen ers but also in their ability cyclamens and need pretty seeds, detailing planting to live outdoors year round, much the same conditions: depth as well as sequeneven in cold climates. perfectly drained soil and tial requirements for both My cyclamen plants are shallow planting. Tubers warm and cool temperastill leafless, the flowers should sit with their tops tures. I’ve followed such being their first sign of life just slightly below soil level. directives and gotten the as they awaken from their My plants have flowered in- seeds to germinate. Then summer dormancy. These doors at east windows and again, I’ve also just sowed blossoms will hover in outdoors on the shaded, the seeds shallowly in pots, place for weeks to come. north side of the house. kept the soil moist and THE SHOW GOES ON GETTING STARTED waited – eventually they seem to germinate no matEven after the blosHardy cyclamens are ter what you do. soms finally fade and generally available from What is important is to drop, the show will not be specialist nurseries (such keep the young seedlings over. Soon to begin is the as Sunfarms, www.sungrowing continuously By LEE REICH
Associated Press
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Cyclamen offer dainty flowers that bloom on a surprisingly hardy plant. Here, cyclamen grow in a container in New Paltz, N.Y. These are not the cyclamen you typically find in a florist shop. They differ from florists’ cyclamens, not only in their diminutive leaves and flowers, but also in their ability to live outdoors year round.
through their first year. They’re not old enough for their summer dormancy until their second year, at which time they generally
start to flower. You may wonder why, if I’m growing hardy cyclamens, they are in flowerpots rather than in the
ground with other hardy plants. The reason is that I have not yet decided just where to plant out these delicate looking beauties.