Dicentra cuccularia rice

[mark smyth]

It's amazing what can be forgotten about. This pot of Dicentra cuccularia rice has been tucked away since the late summer and I 'found' it today while clearing pot. It's bin day tomorrow.

How long to flowering size?

[Maggi Young]

Looks pretty healthy, Mark... next year should see you some flowers, if you're lucky. The year after, certainly.

[Lesley Cox]

Just plant it out somewhere and forget it again. won't be long.

[mark smyth]

7 days later there is a forest of leaves

[Susan Band]

Here is a selection of a pink one flowering for the first time with me. It got it from Peter Korn, its name is Dicentra cuccularia Pink Punk.

[Lesley Cox]

That's a LUVERLY selection Susan. Lucky you!

[mark smyth]

I have had some but they didnt appear this year 

[dan]

i accidently planted mine near dicentra stuart bootham which spread everywhere so i was pulling it up and pulled up the pink Dicentra cuccularia Pittsburg! Ooops!

[mark smyth]

I think I'll soon be at that stage due to decreasing amount of room

[Paddy Tobin]

Susan,

'PINK PUNK' !  Who in the love of god thought of that name?

Paddy

[Maggi Young]

Dicentra 'Stuart Boothman' should be sold as a ground cover plant, that's for sure! It is one of those plants whose ambition is to colonise the world, preferably by lunchtime tomorrow if its behaviour in our garden is anything to go by!


Paddy, 'Pink Punk' was named by Henrik Zetterlund......if you knew him, you'd understand!
see this page on the old forum, too: http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/321/32748.html

[Paddy Tobin]

OK Maggi,

Nice plant but what a name!

Paddy

[dan]

dicentra stuart bootham really is a rampant weed! but a beautiful one!

[mark smyth]

4 years on and no flowers 

[Lesley Cox]

Confine it somewhere Mark, a large pot or trough maybe. If it can put all its energy into leaf growth, it will take that easy way and not bother with flowers.