Cyclamen and Azaleas

[snowowl]

I have both of these house plants that have been flowering well for the last few months.
My question is what do i do with them now they are over? Will they flower again next year and if so how do i water and store them over the summer?
Also do i repot them?Thanks

[andy]

Ok....both of the plants you mention need different treatment.

Cyclamen is a corm....a large type of bulb and can be treated the same way as daffs or tulips etc. Keep the cyclamen watered and growing well. Keep it warm and in a bright place and feed it weekly with a liquid food such as miracle grow.. Then, around the end of may time, start letting it dry out gradually...giving only enough water to keep it ticking over.
All the leaves should die off and the plant will go into its summer dormancy....just like daffs do.
You can either take the corm out of the pot and remove all the old soil and roots and store it in a cool dry place or leave it in the pot, turn the pot on its side and put it somewhere dry.

As for the azalea, chances are you have a tender azalea. Now it's finnished flowering, i would start giving it a liquid feed every two weeks for a couple of months and then increase that to every week through the summer.
You can either pot the azalea into a bigger pot using ericaceous compost or, if you have acid soil, you can plant it in the garden until the autumn.
Whatever you do, do not put it out until the risk of hard frosts has gone and never let azaleas dry out.

Hope this helps a bit

[snowowl]

Thank you Andy yes that as helped me a lot.