Corydalis 2014

[krisderaeymaeker]

A few Leonticoides Corydalis in flower.
Last autumn they were moved to my greenhouse as their normal cold-frame home is leaking and in need of repair. Unfortunately this resulted in earlier watering and increased heat which has wakened them earlier than I would have liked resulting in some etiolated foliage.

Perfect pictures and very colourful plants Steve. A good promotion for this genus !

[Cyril L]

Superb close-ups Steve.

Corydalis angustifolia 'Gemini'.  Look at the spurs.

[ebbie]

My first Corydalis for this year,
Corydalis popovii, a large corm with around 15 shots in a ring

Wow, what a large Corydalis popovii. I have never seen such before. Gorgeous!

[Maggi Young]

Corydalis angustifolia 'Gemini'.  Look at the spurs.

A Corydalis with ambitions to be a Dicentra!

[Cyril L]

A Corydalis with ambitions to be a Dicentra!

Comes true from seeds I am told.

I once had a plant on the raised bed with twin red flowers.  Unfortunately it did not reappear the following year.

My first Corydalis for this year,
Corydalis popovii, a large corm with around 15 shots in a ring

Splendid C. popovii Dirk.  All these flowers from one corm.

[Tony Willis]

Corydalis solida from Greece Mt Olympus

[udo]

Comes true from seeds I am told.

I once had a plant on the raised bed with twin red flowers.  Unfortunately it did not reappear the following year.
Splendid C. popovii Dirk.  All these flowers from one corm.

Many thanks ebbie and Cyril,
The corm is about 15 years old, in the meantime, and hardly fits in 13 cm of pot.

[Cyril L]

Corydalis solida from Greece Mt Olympus

Well grown Tony.

[Cyril L]

This Corydalis popovii is thriving on a sandy dry raised bed outside.  It's been there for about 8 years.

[ChrisB]

Cyril did you grow your pop from seed?  It's lovely...

[Leena]

Very nice C.popovii, and it is good to know how you grow it.
I have mostly C.solida cultivars, but I'm thinking of trying also these earlier species.

[Cyril L]

Cyril did you grow your pop from seed?  It's lovely...

Christine, some years ago when I got interested in leonticoides Corydalis, I pollinated different clones of C. popovii and grew quite a few plants from my own seeds.  Some of them are still in pots but I have a few outside which surprise me by coming up and flowering every year.  I think if you get the right place (well-drained, sunny), they are not too difficult outside.

[Cyril L]

Very nice C.popovii, and it is good to know how you grow it.
I have mostly C.solida cultivars, but I'm thinking of trying also these earlier species.

Leena, the Corydalis solida cultivars are lovely at this time, but they do seed around profusely in my garden, so much so that I am having to weed them out now.

[Roma]

Wonderful show of Corydalis solida, Cyril.  Do you weed out most of the purples?  I started with Corydalis 'George Baker' in a pot and got lots of seedlings in the frame.  I planted them out in the garden and have as many purples as reds and pinkish reds.  Pale pinks are rare.  I have a couple of white solidas in pots but have not planted any in the garden yet. 

[Roma]

The Corydalis solida in the frame are not flowering very well this year.  Maybe they dried out too much last summer.  I should plant out the seedlings and just keep named varieties in pots.
The white in the last picture is Corydalis malkensis