My favorite winter indoor plant

My indoor cyclamen (Cyclamen persicum) blooms in winter, every year since at least 2019, but I lost count.
They can be very picky about water, temperature, well, pretty much everything. The florist’s cyclamen has a reputation of a short-lived, temporary indoor plant. (But, not to me — just need to treat it the way it wants to be, which might be a cooler room temperature than most people like.) I also err on the side of not watering often, so it’s showing off (above). See!?

If you’ve ever walked around a village in the south of France in late autumn, just when there starts to be a constant chill in the air, you might have seen huge cyclamen perched on stone walls outside around town. It’s their perfect happy place when living outdoors. My key to happy indoor plants is to learn all the details of the environment where they originated. (The cyclamen is native to alpine woodlands in parts of southern Europe, western Asia and North Africa near the Mediterranean.) Then, I do my best to mimic it’s native conditions as much as possible without fussing too much.

Cyclamen blooming outside in southern France

So, yes, that means, I don’t even attempt to keep an orchid and a few other types alive where I live in winter. However, I learned the ones that like what I can provide for them. This white cyclamen has grown substantially since I got it as a little baby. It doesn’t claim to appear any better than a little sad all summer, but leave it alone in indirect light, and you will likely get to enjoy these white beauties that hover over their mound of leaves, looking like badminton birdies, to me.