Re: Corydalis

Hello Linda,
    I have C. 'George Baker' in a bed up under the old cedar tree and on
either side is Anemone ranunculoides. Bight butter yellow  with dark,
brick-red, George in the middle. Nice effect. Both will be gone before long,
but the cool temperatures are helping the color and how long the blooms hang
on in my garden. Rocks and ferns will take care of the space after they go
dormant in July.
    Can not find the name right now, but I have a blue blooming corydalis I
have been playing with for almost 3 years now. Just about evergreen here.
Nice tiny lacy leaves, violet-blue flowers. Nothing seems to bother it thus
far. Hot weather, humidity, drought, cold..... wet.... still out there. Hope
to begin propagating it before long. Want it in more spots in the garden....
perhaps the nursery if it continues to perform well.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana
----- Original Message -----
> Hi Gene,
>
> Two years ago Bill Lee gave me some of the Corydalis Lutea that grows
> like crazy in his garden.  It bloomed fine that year but last summer it
> appeared to be lost.  When I mentioned it to Bill he said that no one
> that he had given it to had been able to keep it.
>
> Well !!!   It made liars of both of us.  This spring it came up in 3
> different places and looks great.
> Also, the Corydalis ex Dufu Temple that we both purchased last spring has
> returned.  I suspect the great snow cover through most of the winter
> improved the odds.
>
> Bill tells me that he purchased C.solida 'George Baker'  and C. decipiens
> of various types from a foreign source and has great hopes for those,
> too.
>
> You were certainly  well ahead of the curve!  Now if we could just grow
> that C. flexuosa Blue Panda!
>
> Linda Wallpe

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