bulbous Corydalis

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I am still in the middle of the Corydalis season.
#1: solida 'Frodo' from Janis.
#2: Kusnetzowii (Dito)
#3: Kusnetzowii closeup
#4: marshalliana
#5: malkensis.
My bracteatas have just started. The first of th eeastern blues also.
Göte

[Hristo]

Göte, your 'Frodo' looks great, super dense flower 'spike'. I look forward to seeing more of your pics as the season progresses for you!

[Janis Ruksans]

I'm not dead, I was in hospital for some time and so disappear from forum. Oh, my back-bone - professional illnes of gardener... + journalist sitting all the day at typewriter. now it replies... The second - just last week (thank to hospital) I finished manuscript of new book for TIMBER PRESS - "Growing Crocuses". So now something more time left.
I'm schokked reading about failing in growing my Corydalis in Canada. Conditions there must be good, as I know. Possibly problems are in cages. For you will see how they grow with me I'm posting picture of Corydalis section in my nursery. Sometimes can be problems, too. This year I lost few hundreds of tubers from rodents, but fortunately they only cros-passed beds, not followed lines destroying complete stocks.
There are some surprises - don't know - pleasant or not. Unfortunately I lost few years ago my last tubers of Corydalis gorinenasis, but they left seedlings which flowered this year. Unfortunately they all are hybrids, very surprising by color. Only few were yellow, but paler than true, so those supposed to be hybrids with C. magadanica. But what is pollen parent of those lilac seedlings, I can't image. By Henrik Zetterlund - second generation could be amasing.
In addition - Corydalis caucasica together with Anemone caucasica in Georgia. Pictured 2 years ago during BARAKA expedition (Sweden+Latvia+Georgia).
Janis

[Paul T]

Janis,

 

Your Corydalis beds are absolutely breathtaking!!! 

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Welcome back Janis
I really hope you are now well - we need you!
Your Corydalis fields are fantastic. Perhaps you can afford to loose some to rodents. I cannot.
Therefore I use cages below ground and I have found no problems. A 6mm net well below soil level lets all small bulbs through.
Do you think that Diane used too narrow mesh?
Göte
 

[Janis Ruksans]

Do you think that Diane used too narrow mesh?
Göte
 

I never used mesh, may be too little drainage. Can't understand.
Janis

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Do you think that Diane used too narrow mesh?
Göte
 

I never used mesh, may be too little drainage. Can't understand.
Janis

Nor can I
What do you think of my idea "too dark in the spring"?
Göte

[Otto Fauser]

Janis ,glad to hear you are well again. As Paul states your Corydalis beds are breathtaking! The named forms of C. solida I've imported from you over the years don't flower as well or as vigorous as your photos indicate ,I think our winters are not cold enough.

[Diane Whitehead]

Janis, your field is wonderful.  That is how I hoped my corydalis
would grow.  That is how many different forms of Anemone
nemorosa grow for me.

 C. tauricola, and transsylvanica have increased, and bracteata
has not increased but has grown much bigger.

It is just the solidas that don't survive - even the Penza seedlings
that I did not put inside net.  They flowered for a few years but
never increased, and this year there are no flowers.

Is there something that solida requires that the other species don't?

Do you grow Anemone nemorosa and Corydalis solida in the same
conditions?

[Janis Ruksans]

Is there something that solida requires that the other species don't?

Do you grow Anemone nemorosa and Corydalis solida in the same
conditions?

Diane, solida is the easiest here, of course, it is native, although not just in my place - I only last autumn planted some hundreds in forest near my house.
I grew my Anemones side by side with Corydalis, and can tell that I can envy you for Anemone. They never are so happy with me although all forests around are full of them. Possibly, too sunny and hot on open field. Corydalis better fiel in some shade, but can grow in full sun, too. Possibly they like drier conditions in summer, as tree roots dries soil at natural localities in summer completely. Even in very rainy summers soil can be dry below trees.
Regarding not coming up, not blooming for some season. It happens here, too. Two years ago I replanted my corydalis and near one stock I noted - tubers looks poor, not living. In spring nothing came up and I striped them out of planting book. This spring this stock marvellously blooms although there was no growth at all a year before. Such happens from time to time.
I just had visitors from UK - they wondered why my stock of malkensis is so small - but it never grew with me very well (this spring - marvellous) but in UK it selfseeds and is almost as weed.
Sincerely
Janis

[Janis Ruksans]

Bed in front of my house with selfsawn mix of Corydalis cava - white and purple, C. marshalliana + there are bracteata, solida, fumariifolia, too; Allium paradoxum, some snowdrops, eranthis etc. etc.
Janis

[Paul T]

Wow!!

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Some more Corydalis.
#1: My first red one was Solida 'Munich sunrise'. It is a very reliable and fairly early form. It tends to double every year.
#2: The one in the middle is not MS. It is a self sown seedling. I can see no difference. MS seems to come true from seed or nearly so. On both sides is something I bought (not from Janis of course) as "bracteata" which it obviously is not  To the far right is "Small White Lativan" At the back 'Blushing Girl' these two should of course have been planted in front
#3: This is of course the real bracteata. As someone remarked, it is tallish when it likes the situation.
#4: Solida 'Lupus' I understand it originated in Gothenburg.
#5: Solida 'Rosalie' originally from Greece. Both these I got from Janis.
#6: I have never seen a really blue solida. It seems that the blue is to be found in East Asia. This is perhaps C. ambigua lineariloba or C. fumariifolia lineariloba. Rather slow in my place. 
#7: C. ornata. Note the "pencilled" line on the upper lip.
#8: C. ornata closeup. Note the hole in the spur where someone has tried to get at the nectary. Happens oft.
Hope I get it posted this time
Göte
 

[Janis Ruksans]

Hot weather very shortened Corydalis season. On first picture - my new field (planted last autumn). But yesterday there was small event in Cesis (my district city) city park where was "opening" of "Corydalis Hill" sponsored by me with planting material, planted last autumn. Yesterday there was small celebration with glass of Champagne and signing of paper for Cesis Museum about such corner.
Janis

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Champagne should be cool, dry and free. XXXXX I missed it again 
Göte