Corydalis 2010

[Susan Band]

Hi Ian,
 I see you point but I still feel they and other bulbs are better coloured this year. The other noticeable one was Iris Katherine Hodgkin, often it is a bit wishy washy but this year it seemed quite a strong colour (not virus  ). I know mecs change their colours if grown inside. Mind you after the weather we are having here at the moment all the corydalis flowers will all be affected by the frost, although it doesn't permanently damage them it can take the colour out of the top of the flowers
Susan

[Janis Ruksans]

Hi Ian,
 I see you point but I still feel they and other bulbs are better coloured this year. The other noticeable one was Iris Katherine Hodgkin, often it is a bit wishy washy but this year it seemed quite a strong colour (not virus  ). I know mecs change their colours if grown inside. Mind you after the weather we are having here at the moment all the corydalis flowers will all be affected by the frost, although it doesn't permanently damage them it can take the colour out of the top of the flowers
Susan

I observed that Corydalis color varies in quite great range from season to season, especially prominent it is in red-pink colored varieties (not in all). In greenhouse color is different, too.
Janis

[TheOnionMan]

My Corydalis solida plants are starting to flower.  Looking at my digital photo records, they are flowering at least two weeks earlier than normal.  Since it is cold and rainy today, here are a couple photos from 2009 of unnamed color selections, they seed around all over the place... love it!

[Janis Ruksans]

Here corydalis only showed noses out of soil in open garden. Pot plants usually are not very typical in color, so I prefair to picture them outside, but few are quite risky for outside conditions because for early blooming they can be seriously damaged by night frosts. Of course they are not easy in greenhouse, too as sometimes inside are too hot.
Now very rare and almost unknown in cultivation Corydalis repens from very Far East in Siberia. In nature 3-4 flowers on stem, much more in cultivation. Note white spotted leaves.
Janis

[TheOnionMan]

Now very rare and almost unknown in cultivation Corydalis repens from very Far East in Siberia. In nature 3-4 flowers on stem, much more in cultivation. Note white spotted leaves.
Janis

Janis, maybe you'll be rectify the situation where that charming species is "almost unknown in cultivation"... the little rounded white-spotted leaves are so distinctive; never seen one quite like it.  A delicate beauty.

[Janis Ruksans]

Now very rare and almost unknown in cultivation Corydalis repens from very Far East in Siberia. In nature 3-4 flowers on stem, much more in cultivation. Note white spotted leaves.
Janis

Janis, maybe you'll be rectify the situation where that charming species is "almost unknown in cultivation"... the little rounded white-spotted leaves are so distinctive; never seen one quite like it.  A delicate beauty.

It very slowly split and set only 2-3 seeds in capsule, so increasing is slow. I had quite good stock but ... in some winter almost nothing left . I restart from 2 small tubers, now I have 3 pots only. Of course - I try to increase this tiny beauty. By the way - it is interesting that a pair of Japanese fritillarias growing not very far has similarly white spotted leaves.
Janis

[Susan Band]

The foliage is especially attractive.
Susan

[TheOnionMan]

By the way - it is interesting that a pair of Japanese fritillarias growing not very far has similarly white spotted leaves.
Janis

Maybe you've also discovered a new Alba-Measles Virus 

[hadacekf]

Corydalis popovii grow like a weed in the bulb bed.

[Janis Ruksans]

Corydalis popovii grow like a weed in the bulb bed.

Would be happy to have such in my collection...
Janis

[Brian Ellis]

That's the sort of weed I would like Franz

[Janis Ruksans]

Corydalis hybrid of unknown origin found by Henrik Zetterlund as accidental seedling and named COSMIC RAINBOW
Janis

[udo]

some Corydalis from this weekend,
Cory.malkensis
  ``  malkensis x solida
  ``  integra
  ``  nariniana

[Hristo]

Dirk, very attractive malkensis x solida, your own cross?

In the garden here;
Corydalis alexeenkoana - in recovary
Corydalis decipiens - is this solida ssp. decipiens yet?
Corydalis soilda 'WHITE KNIGHT' - superb vegetative increase.

[Janis Ruksans]

Usually Corydalis gorinensis is between the earliest to flower, but this year last tuber of it still is only coming up in greenhouse as well as its close allie - C. magadanica. May be this is for very strong winter without warmings breaking dormancy - so it is more similar to conditions at their homeland.
On attached pictures you can see the last tuber of gorinensis blooming in garden when I collected its seeds. From first crop of seedlings I got a lot of hybrids, generally 3 types. Two were identical by leaves and flowers, only blooming time was something different and they looked very far from mother plant, but they set seeds so I wait splitting in following generation. One plant had leaves of gorinensis type but strange flower color. On the last picture you can see splitting between seedlings of outside grown gorinensis got in last year of its existence - tuber that season rotted. There are still no flowers, but leaves show that each plant again will be different.
In additional pictures of few Corydalis blooming now in greenhouse
Corydalis henrikii
Corydalis integra and
Corydalis paschei
Janis