Corydalis 2014

[David Nicholson]

My first one of the season- Corydalis wendelboi ssp wendelboi

[Robert]

David,

Thank you so much for the photograph of C. wendeloi. I hope you post more Corydalis photos as your season progresses. Here in interior California (very hot in the summer) I'm very much isolated from the horticultural world and more or less the last stop for interesting plants. I grow C. flexuosa and that is about it, however I believe that other species would do well here. Anyway, until more comes my way I can enjoy the photographs and learn something too. Thank you so much.

Robert

[David Nicholson]

Robert, although I have a few species I'm very much a beginner with Corydalis and wouldn't be able to teach you much at all. It won't be long now though before the really good growers begin to show their pictures and in the meantime Ian Young's Bulb Log will offer you a vast amount of information (you can search it on "Corydalis )

[Maggi Young]

........ and in the meantime Ian Young's Bulb Log will offer you a vast amount of information (you can search it on "Corydalis )

You can find the full index here : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=846.msg289714#msg289714

[Mark Griffiths]

nice plant David, great to see the first signs of a spring to come

[Robert]

David,

Thank you for all the good words. I believe, if we are open, we can learn from everything! The Bulb Log, more or less, got me started with the forum. Mr. Young does us a huge service. It must be a labor of love. Maggi's efforts can not be forgotten either, her beneficial involvement in the forum is very evident.

I look forward to more Corydalis postings in the future.

Robert

[Lesley Cox]

In effect, Ian and Maggi as a unit ARE the Forum. Oh well, there are a few others involved too, like a few thousand posters and lurkers but I can't imagine anyone else in the world who could have made our Forum such a friendly, user-friendly place where everyone is welcome and they don't mind our particular foibles. I know many have left others forums (fora?) because the rules were so strict they stifled open discussion and left participants with such a narrow focus that the life of that particular forum became boring very quickly and one felt inhibited form expressing a genuinely held opinion. Long live Maggi and Ian!

[Robert]

Thank you Lesley for the good words about the forum!!

I hope to contribute as I can, however the garden here is still sleepy.

Robert

[Margaret]

Here, here to Lesley's endorsement of Maggi and Ian. Lots of information, great research (how do you find all those links, Maggi?), care and concern for the forum members intermingled with plenty of fun. I'm hooked!

[Lesley Cox]

Maggi does all the research and finds the links by not going to bed at all. She was working madly at her computer when I went to bed and was still there when I got up next day. I don't know how she manages it as she still looks fresh as a daisy - or a rhododendron - no matter how long her hours.

[Steve Garvie]

Corydalis haussknechtii





One of the bulb-belt species and one of the earliest to flower. This is a Kurdish endemic being found in Turkish and Iraqi Kurdistan.
The flowers are white or very pale lilac with dark red-purple tips to the inner petals.

Not a plant to set the heather alight but it does have some quiet charm when viewed up close.

[Robert]

Steve,

C. haussknechtii looks nice in the photographs. There are, more or less, no Corydalis in our garden now. I have another batch of seed started so maybe this will change in the future. In the mean time, I enjoy seeing what others have growing.

Robert

[Cyril L]

These are very early flowering corydalis David and Steve.  Nowhere near flowering here, they start after most of the snowdrops are over.

[ChrisD]

My first one of the season- Corydalis wendelboi ssp wendelboi

Wow that is early and from the picture growing in the garden? Have you had them long David? There are so many pictures of gorgeous Corydalis on this site it is difficult to know which ones to try next.

And a great photos Steve.

[David Nicholson]

Bought last August from Augis Bulbs (he has a substantial listing of Corydalis and supples high quality bulbs). It's put on a bit of growth since I took the picture so I'll try to get an update this week.