Corydalis 2016

[Tristan_He]

C. flexuosa does have a habit of disappearing in summer in warmer climates and not reappearing.

For those interested in a blue Corydalis that is a 'good doer', I'd recommend C. 'Craigton Blue' which grows very well indeed for me (think Dicentra formosa). However, our cool location in NW Wales may also help!

[Cfred72]

Where I live, we can not talk about a hot country. Also, I installed facing east, at the foot of a wall, not far from the sink drain to the terrace. He often humid there. Corydalis' Craigton Blue is a beautiful plant.

[Tristan_He]

Corydalis angustifolia, a very underrated plant in my opinion. Good white flowers and the foliage is more ornamental than many of the solidas.



Also delighted to see some self-seeding of this plant, more of it will look lovely with the blue chionodoxas.


Pleased to see some other Corydalis self-seeding, as I've never knowingly had this before. I think this is probably C. wendelboi.

[Gabriela]

Corydalis angustifolia, a very underrated plant in my opinion. Good white flowers and the foliage is more ornamental than many of the solidas.

Agree, it's a nice one.

[Leena]

Earlier in the spring there was talk about different looking C.solida 'Transsylvanica'.
This is how mine looks, it was bought from Janis Ruksans some years ago.

[Lesley Cox]

I haven't a photo to show but my transsylvanica is a bricky red colour, not so rich as 'George Baker' but still very good. Actually I have several photos but having changed to a laptop with different picture programmes, I can't find anything at all.

[Lesley Cox]

Now I've found it, in the process of deleting a lot of duplicates. (Possibly) productive way to spend a fine but very cold Anzac Day.

I think these pictures don't show the true colour though, should be a little more towards terra cotta maybe.

[Leena]

Lesley, your 'Transsylvanica' has nicer warm colour than mine does, and also different flower shape  . I believe 'Transsylvanica' is more a strain than just one plant, so there are many types sold under the same name. Mine is quite tall.

Here are couple of more Corydalis from my garden flowering now.
I have nameless pinks and this tall and good 'Beth Evans'. It is very prolific, too.
Yellowish C.cava 'Alba' is always earlier than normal blueish C.cava.

[Gabriela]

Beautiful Leena and I think you are right about the seed strain.
Even the cultivars, sometimes I wonder - I had no idea where my Beth Evans is (maybe one of my squirrels knows but it was light pink and not at all floriferous. Nothing like the one in your picture.

[Lesley Cox]

That's interesting Gabriela because though we don't have 'Beth Evans' in New Zealand, I've seen it several times here on the Forum, especially in the Young's Scottish garden and it has seemed to me to be lighter but purer pink. Perhaps it's a light thing or maybe the growing conditions/climate influence the colouring?  It seems to me to be a very desirable cultivar.

[Leena]

My 'Beth Evans' was bought from Netherlands couple of years ago from bulk supplier. It is early, tall, and good quite strong pink, and has multiplied well for me in just a few years. It also has produced seeds, so I don't know how well the big producers can keep their stock pure and so that there are no seedlings. When I bought these originally five bulbs, they were all the same clone, but now I have spread it in many places in the garden. I think the plant in the picture was one or two bulbs planted last summer.
I may be wrong, but I've gotten the impression that the weather may affect the colour, at least in springs when there are lot of freezing nights, my hellebore flowers seem darker than when the weather is milder.

[Gabriela]

Colder weather in the spring for sure affects the intensity of colour on Corydalis. The colder it gets, the more intense. I found an image with my Corydalis 'Beth Evans' (?) of last year. I don't know if the white line on the upper lips is characteristic, over the internet I found few images that show the same mark. I had it for 3 years and never produced seeds. It was bought from Fraser's Thimble Farm (BC), the only place that sells here named Corydalis.

I will look around the garden tomorrow, maybe I'll found it somewhere.

[Cfred72]

I finally could acquire a small plant Corydalis ochroleuca. I planted among the solida Corydalis.

[David Nicholson]

Nice one Fred. I think it rejoices now in the name of Pseudofumaria alba

[Leena]

Three years ago I sowed seeds from my C.wendelboi 'Abant Wine'. They are flowering now, this clump is from those seeds. It seems to me that 'Abant Wine' has crossed with C.solida, because the leaves are not at as divided and thin as in AW. I didn't know C.wendelboi and C.solida can cross, is this usual?