Cyclamen

Oct.11, 2009
Got 10 from Brecks.com and planted in the left-front of the "street bed":

Here is the catalog picture and description:

In late summer these rose-pink, butterfly blooms seem to pop up out of nowhere. Cyclamen flourishes in shade and sends up as many as 30 delicate 1" blooms on each mature plant! After flowers fade, marbled heart-shaped foliage appears and lasts through winter. Premium bulbs are both hardy and long-lived. Lovely in rock gardens and woodland borders. Self-sowing. The plants grow to 4"-6" tall, perfect for the front of the bed, and bloom in late summer. Deer tend to avoid.

For a newbie gardener like me, the "tuber" (or whatever it is) looked very strange:
large, round, and flat with the bottom side being perfectly smooth: