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Re: Favourite Thug for a Med. Garden

Susan.George@dtf.vic.gov.au wrote:
> 
> Just goes to show that one person's thug is another person's treasure!
> 
> I have had several goes at trying to establish Coryadalis lutea with no
> success - perhaps because I live too close to the sea (not enough freezing
> cold whether, soil too dry and sandy)? Friends who garden in the Dandenong
> Ranges, about 50km away (colder, damper, heavy rich mountain soil) do find
> it a little weedy however. Oh -  if only!
> 
Susan 
I have had no luck with Corydalis lutea either, but C. cheilanthifolia
and C. ocroleuca are definitely on the thuggish side in my garden and I
have no trouble growing the new (to cultivation here) blue-flowered
cultivars such as "Blue Panda". 

I always wonder about this, as I remember C lutea as a beautiful weed on
rock walls and many other odd spots around a garden I once knew in the
south of England.

Moira

-- 
Tony & Moira Ryan <theryans@xtra.co.nz>
Wainuiomata, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
(SW Corner of the Pacific Ocean)
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