Corydalis 2017

[Yann]

Corydalis glaucescens 'kashigarica'

[David Nicholson]

Very nice Yann.

[Cfred72]

I had planted some bulbs of Corydalis cava ('mixed') in autumn 2015.
Last year, I had only one small flower on one of the plants.
This year, the plants took a little strength and bloom. I hope this year I will get a few seeds to stuff the corner of plantation bed.

[Gerdk]

Some Corydalis from this week

1. Corydalis marschalliana (the pale yellow variant)

2. + 3. Corydalis solida - pale blue (own selection) and a bright red selection

Gerd

[WimB]

Corydalis woronowii  woroschilovii

[Gabriela]

Corydalis woronowii

Lovely Wim, but maybe there was too much Galanthus in your mind?

[WimB]

Lovely Wim, but maybe there was too much Galanthus in your mind?

LOL, think so too, those pesky white things....name has been corrected!

[rgc]

Some Corydalis pictures taken this morning.
1. Corydalis cava
2. Red Corydalis solida. Bought last year from Rumbling Bridge with label 'red and cream seedling'. It is redder than the various 'George Baker' forms in the garden.
3. Corydalis 'Rainer Blue' bought from Potterton a few years ago. It flowers much earlier than my other blue Corydalis and has started really early this year. It does not seem to be widely available. According to the Far Reaches Farm website, it was 'collected by Hinkley in Sichuan and there is speculation that it might be a flexuosa x elata hybrid'.

Bob

[David Nicholson]

Corydalis solida 'Pussy'
C. 'Blue Dragon'
C. 'Blue Heron'

[rgc]

Hi David
The flowering of your 'Blue Dragon' and 'Blue Heron' are certainly far more advanced than mine. I believe that Devon is a wee bit further south than Stirling!

Like 'Rainer Blue', 'Blue Heron' was collected in Sichuan by Dan Hinkley. It is a gorgeous plant.
Bob

[David Nicholson]

Hi Bob,

Both Blue Dragon and Blue Heron are a good month earlier than they were last year. I don't know if you saw it but in Reply 121 on the Corydalis 2016 thread I strung together a little information on blue Corydalis.

 edit by maggi to add link : http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13942.msg359339#msg359339

[Hoy]

An unnamed red one from my garden - still unschatched.
Once I bought several unnamed corms from Janis. Now they are self seeding in the garden.

[rgc]

Hi David
Yes, I saw your post 121 on the Corydalis 2016 thread with info on blue corydalis. Very interesting.

I labelled my picture 'Rainer Blue' which is the name used on the Pottertons website, but it seems likely that it is the 'Rainier Blue' described by Far Reaches Farm and given in your list. I will relabel it.

According to 'Bleeding Hearts, Corydalis and their relatives' by Tebbit, Liden and Zetterlund, 'Blue Dragon' is a synonym for 'Purple' Leaf'. (Both are in your list.)

I recently bought several more blue corydalis from Plant Preference (including elata 'Blue Summit', flexuosa 'Norman's Seedling' and 'Hale Cat')and as different clones of 'Craigton Blue' have been reported to be on sale, I added one to the list so that I can compare it with the 'Craigton Blue' I bought some years ago and has been happily divided several times and spread around the garden.

'Spinners', 'Craigton Blue' and 'Heavenly Blue' all do very well. Lost my first 'China Blue', but am trying again. Cashmeriana is showing through the ground, but no signs of life this year yet with 'Kingfisher'.

I have a thug bought as flexuosa. Does not flower till mid June (dark blue flowers) and grows 3ft high, but stems flop. Has seeded itself around. Cannot find anything in the literature that matches the description.

Bob

[David Nicholson]

For those of you who like me don't find some of the blue Corydalis easy might find the following Blog useful.

http://www.nodiggardener.co.uk/2014/04/why-does-my-blue-corydalis-flexuosa-die.html

[David Nicholson]

Corydalis 'Spinners'.

It's been pretty windy here for the last few days and the stems, which have been upright, have taken a bit of a pasting.