Corydalis 2010

[Hristo]

3 years ago C.maracandica set seed in what was a covered bed. This bed was restructured into an outdoor bulb bed. The seedlings remained in this bed and having been through two winters in the open the first fowers have appeared. The seed parent is certain the pollen parent is best guess bsed on colouration. Maracandica crosses with popovii, I have this cross and it looks quite different.

[winwen]

Corydalis are -indeed- wonderful plants!
I think that everyone who has bought Liden/Zetterlunds book "Corydalis" has admired the wonderful photos inside.
The cover alone is an artwork of it's own with the wonderful Corydalis ornata "Blue Lip" in the upper left corner!
However - my absolute favorite Corydalis is the blue/white bicolored Corydalis ussuriensis. Unfortunately only one plant is currently in cultivation at the Botanical Garden Gothenburgh. This has never set seeds or multiplied vegetatively and it has -sadly- never been accessible to the public. There are still waiting some precious little things for their introduction......

Some of them are self sterile  so we need to introduce at least two plants of a new corydalis.
göte

Yep-unfortunately!
BTW: What does it mean when Zetterlund/Liden write "maybe self-compatible to a certain degree" in their book about Corydalis ornata? Have you ever had seeds by selfing Corydalis ornata?

[WimB]

One flowering here today:

Corydalis solida 'Gandalf'

[LucS]

Flowering of corydalis has started in the rockgarden, especially in places where the sun can give some warmth.
  Corydalis solida "Dieter Schacht"
  Corydalis tauricola x caucasica alba

[WimB]

Beautiful plants, luc.

[gote]

Corydalis are -indeed- wonderful plants!
I think that everyone who has bought Liden/Zetterlunds book "Corydalis" has admired the wonderful photos inside.
The cover alone is an artwork of it's own with the wonderful Corydalis ornata "Blue Lip" in the upper left corner!
However - my absolute favorite Corydalis is the blue/white bicolored Corydalis ussuriensis. Unfortunately only one plant is currently in cultivation at the Botanical Garden Gothenburgh. This has never set seeds or multiplied vegetatively and it has -sadly- never been accessible to the public. There are still waiting some precious little things for their introduction......

Some of them are self sterile  so we need to introduce at least two plants of a new corydalis.
göte

Yep-unfortunately!
BTW: What does it mean when Zetterlund/Liden write "maybe self-compatible to a certain degree" in their book about Corydalis ornata? Have you ever had seeds by selfing Corydalis ornata?

I have never tried to pollinate any Corydalis the private parts are too small for my clumsiness. I am happy if I manage to collect any seed Yesterday unripe - today OK - tomorrow gone. 
Göte

[gote]

Flowering of corydalis has started in the rockgarden, especially in places where the sun can give some warmth.
  Corydalis solida "Dieter Schacht"
  Corydalis tauricola x caucasica alba

YOur Hybrid has a very appealing colur Luc.
Göte

[WimB]

Here are two solida's flowering in my garden today:

Corydalis solida 'Elrond' and
Corydalis solida 'George Baker'

[Heather Smith]

Corydalis are beginning to flower with me, too.  I was worried about C malkensis which is usually out in Feb. but it is flowering well now and there is even another one I didn't know I had flowering elsewhere on the scree.  I suppose it self-seeded. 
At last there is real colour in the garden as the snowdrops are going over - crocus, iris, scilla, hellebores, daffodils, Daphne mezereum, anemones etc.

[Sinchets]

We never did manage to pin a name to this one, which was bought as Corydalis species Imison Pass. This year it has its first seedlings around it.

[cohan]

We never did manage to pin a name to this one, which was bought as Corydalis species Imison Pass. This year it has its first seedlings around it.

very sweet plant--so this is the mother plant? old enough for seedlings? seems a baby itself!

[Regelian]

Well, I can't compete with these beauties, but C. solida, don't know the variety, has started blooming near the Hepaticas.  Other than C. lutea and C. cheilinifolius (sp?), I have no others.

Corydalis solida- unk clone

[WimB]

WOW, Jamie,

that's a fluo-pink one, nice.

[gote]

Well, I can't compete with these beauties, but C. solida, don't know the variety, has started blooming near the Hepaticas.  Other than C. lutea and C. cheilinifolius (sp?), I have no others.

Corydalis solida- unk clone

Seedlings from solida clones often look very similar to the seed parent. This makes it very difficult  to uphold a cultivar/clone name. This one looks like a seedling of one of the red forms like 'Munich Sunrise' but perhaps not a George baker seedling since GB has more narrow leaf lobes and slightly darker leaf colour. GB is also among the later flowering but that means nothing if you do not have a swarm of solidas.
My own are still under 30 cm snow but is is melting fast now.
Cheers
Göte

[Sinchets]

We never did manage to pin a name to this one, which was bought as Corydalis species Imison Pass. This year it has its first seedlings around it.

very sweet plant--so this is the mother plant? old enough for seedlings? seems a baby itself!

I think this would be the mother plant and we are waiting with baited breath to see how the seedlings develop. They will either be selfed from the parent (confirming my suspicions that it is a hybrid itself) or crossed with a its nearest neighbour, which is C.henrikii. This is also quite big for this plant, but a better show than last year!