Re: Blue Corydalis

In a message dated 2/26/2003 10:22:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, ECPep@aol.com 
writes:

> The blue flowered Corydalis are more difficult though a number of new ones 
> are around for us to try.  C. elata is recommended here and is in perennial 
> 
> nurseries to buy off the bench.  I plant all Corydalis in rocky areas, it 
> looks good around rocks.

I have hopes for my C. lutea, Claire. It was still showing foliage when the 
snow arrived. And I have it right at the top of a stone wall, surrounded by 
gravelly soil. I think it will return in the spring (it may even be there 
hiding under the snow and ice).

For blue-flowered corydalis, you can forget 'Blue Panda' and 'China Blue' in 
this area. Nobody in the Cincinnati area can keep it alive. I also failed 
with one planting of C. elata.  But Linda Wallpe and I have both had great 
success with C. ex dufu temple, a bluish/purplish flowering corydalis. It 
hasn't spread yet, but we've both kept it going for two years with no special 
care. I noticed it listed in Arrowhead Alpine's catalog and he is also 
apparently the originator of it.  We bought it at a local nursery.
Bill Lee

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