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Cohan;Very healthy looking plant! It does stay like that all thru summer, or at least it does here in Norway. No idea about other requirements, but it seems happy here in my wet garden, so maybe avoid keeping it too dry? Both of you: Did the Corydalis seed germinate? If not there's plenty more, and judging by the amount of seedlings popping up I'll have to collect them or the entire border will turn blue!
I think it looks like Scilla litardierei.
Love the wedding cake tree! Wish it was a little bit hardier, had to settle for C. alternifolia here.
Arisaema, you musn't judge any Ran semiverticillatus you may get by how mine behaves. After all, there have been a couple shown in flower either on the (old?) Forum or at AGS shows. Mine is a big plant now with up to a dozen noses but I am sure it is the cold, or lack of it which is the problem. To start with, it comes up far too early in late winter instead of late October/November as it does in the wild. And it grows into a looser plant than those we've seen in the AGS Bulletin. If it were possible I would pass it along to someone with a really cold, snow covered winter but as its roots must now fill the quite large trough, that's not an option. I could divide it of course but that could be fatal to the whole lot and I think it would be impossible to dig. I'd have to smash the trough off from around it.
I too liked the Cornus controversa Christine showed, a very nice tree. Is it specifically the variegata that is not hardy to zone 7, or controversa generally? We have a few three year old seedlings of "plain" controversa that have spent the last two quite cold winters (minimum -15C, but a long cold period) outside in small pots, and they are still fine.
Spring flowering beds