Corydalis 2011

[Maggi Young]

Thanks, Gerhard.... I will join the two in the Bulbs section..... enough are tubers and corms!

[TheOnionMan]

Corydalis maracandica is a good grower, this is the same pot, which I have shown here 23 Jan

Gerhard, good to see what this looks like in bloom, very nice. Late summer of 2009 I picked up about 6 seedling plants of this species, a couple actually made a flower or two in the fall, but none returned the following spring 2010.  So, I wonder how hardy it might me, probably my plants never had enough time to become established.

[Gerhard Raschun]

fast, faster, Maggi   

Mark, sorry that I can`t inform you about hardness. All my Corydalis species section Leonticioides are growing indoor in pots.

In my opinion moisture in summer ( when tubers are in rest) is a greater problem. If the tubers are deep enough on a dry, sunny place, the should be hard. Mayby Janis could help with information about the native spots

[Alex]

Corydalis sewerzowii today, and the left plunge of the greenhouse where the Leonticoides Corydalis are dominating now. Also a floriferous C. maracandica.

[ChrisD]

Hi everyone, lots and lots of lovely plants in this thread (and the 2010 version).

Please could I ask for some suggestions that might do well here in Letchworth, UK (about 40 miles north of London) planted in the Garden. My soil is a rather heavy clay so it is cold and wet during the winter and hard and dry during the summer it is also slightly alkaline. Having said that there are several clumps of C. solida (a rather muddy pink/purple colour) which were in the garden when we moved in, have thrived on almost total neglect and now grow in my small meadow area. I also planted some C. "beth evans" in the autumn and they are just showing ( in one of the borders). Finally C. malkensis is flowering beautifully in a pot next to the house, it is surrounded by a number of babies so I will plant it out in the summer and try that in the garden, but pot the babies on as an insurance policy.

Presumably I could expect all the C. solida cultivars to be OK in the garden? What about some of the other species? All ideas welcome.

Chris

[Janis Ruksans]

Hi everyone, lots and lots of lovely plants in this thread (and the 2010 version).

Please could I ask for some suggestions that might do well here in Letchworth, UK (about 40 miles north of London) planted in the Garden. My soil is a rather heavy clay so it is cold and wet during the winter and hard and dry during the summer it is also slightly alkaline. Having said that there are several clumps of C. solida (a rather muddy pink/purple colour) which were in the garden when we moved in, have thrived on almost total neglect and now grow in my small meadow area. I also planted some C. "beth evans" in the autumn and they are just showing ( in one of the borders). Finally C. malkensis is flowering beautifully in a pot next to the house, it is surrounded by a number of babies so I will plant it out in the summer and try that in the garden, but pot the babies on as an insurance policy.

Presumably I could expect all the C. solida cultivars to be OK in the garden? What about some of the other species? All ideas welcome.

Chris

Most of so named woodlanders and I suppose that species from Siberia and Far East will grow well with you, improve the soil with good compost and all must be OK.
Janis

[PeterT]

Corydalis maracandica is a good grower, this is the same pot, which I have shown here 23 Jan

Gerhard, good to see what this looks like in bloom, very nice. Late summer of 2009 I picked up about 6 seedling plants of this species, a couple actually made a flower or two in the fall, but none returned the following spring 2010.  So, I wonder how hardy it might me, probably my plants never had enough time to become established.

Mark, if you had C maracandica in flower before winter you would be quite out of season, cold wise my pots freeze solid and grow away in the early spring,  I treat them like tulips but with extra water once they come through. Maracandica is just up now for me, under a glass canopy where it went to-18c in December without snow cover

[PeterT]

some Corydalis here today, C henrikii, C glaucescens Early Beauty from Janis a few years ago, and C x wendelboi bought from the Wallaces at the loughbourgh show a couple of years ago

[PeterT]

and a few more, a picture today of nudicaulis and the two popovii's which I posted a picture of a week or two ago. and a picture of a plant sown as ledebouriana, It was suggested it might be seisumsiana x ledbouriana 

[Alex]

Hi Peter,

Please do let me know if you find out what the mystery Corydalis is - I've got one too! It does sprawl horribly, but I quite like it anyway. I got it as a bonus plant with an order from Jan Jilek about 7 years ago (haven't been able to contact the guy since then), it was labelled "Corydalis sp. Afghanistan". Tried picture-matching in the AGS book without success.

Cheers,

Alex

[Alex]

Corydalis schanginii ssp. ainae and C. nudicaulis

[Darren]

This was bought as C. ornata but I can't swear the ID is correct.

Either way it is a lovely pale blue and is currently greatly enhancing the frame where it spends the whole year.

[Lesley Cox]

THat is quite lovely Darren. I'm happy to see C. nudicaulis too.

[Hoy]

Heavenly colour, Darren

[WimB]

Corydalis wendelboi flowering here today.