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very nice set of colors from all of you, here's another solida hybrid 'Domino'
Here areCorydalis solida - one of my best blue selectionsGerd
What I'm doing now is grow them 2 years in pots to better give them a 'fighting' chance, then I plant in the garden after they go dormant (in the second year).
Gorgeous blue Gerd, are you sure it doean't have a bit of foreign blood? The flower shape is a bit unusual for solida.
This is what I'm doing now, too. I have lost seedlings in some years, when I have either sown them directly to ground or planted right after germination. Of course this would happen to seedlings which I'm most looking forward to, the more common ones (muddy purple) just keep on self seeding no matter what the weather is like ..
Thank you Gabriela! There is more than one origin of my blue selections. I remember that I once found a single blue one in the Alps and there are also some of commerce. However I just compared the photographed plant with other solidas and I can't detect special differences.I must confess I am not the best oberserver concerning differentiation, so would you please tell me what is unusual for you.Gerd
I have never seen a pure blue C. solida (and I've witness large populations in the wild) and I actually don't know of any cultivars, maybe they exist but no one shows them.
Thank you Gabriela! I just picked a flowerhead of the blue selection - and you are right, the spur is more incurved than it is in the other ' solida ' which I grow. So some kind of introgression can't be excluded.I am still not sure if this is sufficient to name them ' solida hybrids ' or ' aff. solida '.Gerd
I bought a bulb of C. solida 'Blue Pearl' from Paul Christian, expecting at least a blue-ish flower but for me it was not even a Dulux hint of blue. I think they must have had quite a few other people disappointed as there is now quite an extensive discussion about the unstable nature of the blue colour of this cultivar on their website...My plant; (Attachment Link)
It's up to you Gerd how to name it, I would say hybrid. What blue Corydalis species you had/have in the garden? It would help to clarify the origin.