Re: corydalis
- Subject: Re: corydalis
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 23:44:07 EDT
In a message dated 6/8/01 10:53:59 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
mygarden@easystreet.com writes:
<< The yellow self sowing Corydalis is C. lutea I believe. Fortunately it is
easy to pull out. This year the white Corydalis has become equally self
sowing, but is so pretty, I wouldn't remove all of it, just the ones that
end up where I don't want them. >>
I'm not a corydalis expert, but something I saw once, or heard once, leads me
to believe that what I have growing all over the place here is not C. lutea.
I did buy a pot of C. lutea from a reputable perennial nursery locally a
couple weeks ago and the plant looks very different--somewhat bronzey foliage
when young. The wild one here is very rangy, foliage flopped all over the
place.
Is the white one you referred to, Marilyn, C. ochreleuca (sp?). A gardening
friend has it all over the place and it IS a beauty. I just got one plant
from her and I don't mind if it spreads at all. Trying C. flexuosa for the
second time. I had two leaves come up the second year the first time I tried
it, and then nothing this year. Here in Cincinnati, nobody can keep 'China
Blue' or 'Blue Panda'.
Bill Lee
Z6a Cincinnati
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