You can increase the relative humidity by placing the potted plant on a tray with water and pebbles. Find a way to prevent the pot from directly contacting the tray water.

After summer, you have to bring the plant back indoors. Do this in autumn before the temperatures turn cold. You may open the windows but don’t allow your house to become chilled.

Cyclamens can rebloom every winter, so there’s no need to ditch the old plant. Encourage new growth by snipping dead stalks out of the base and eliminating dead leaves. Keep the soil dry in the dormancy stage.

Reduce watering over the spring and summer to let the flowers go dormant otherwise the plant will not reflower the following autumn. Never force the plant to blossom year-round, but do not allow it to remain dry so long that it begins to droop.

They are perennials and can live for many years under the right conditions.