Re: corydalis
- Subject: Re: corydalis
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2001 02:48:34 -0400
Bill, if your "wild" one has attractive greyish leaves and rather
wishy-washy straw colored (dirty white) flowers, I bet it's C.
ophiocarpa, which seeds excessively and flops all once it's
mature....young it's a nice mound of foliage. Finally think I may
have gotten rid of this one; was not enamored of it at all.
C. lutea is, IMO, a charming plant. Cute and perky and keeps on
bloomin'. Had some for nearly 20 years and it died out and I've been
aggressively snagging it from plant exchange to get it going again.
C. ochreleuca is a love. Got mine from Gene Bush's Munchkin Nursery
and adore it. Just hope it decides to seed about. See he is sold
out for this year, but those who want it can check next year (this
fall? Gene?)...
http://www.munchkinnursery.com/catalog/browse?FddKQYpc;C2
Have killed several of the blue C. flexuosas...read (and believe)
that they just can't take high summer temperatures nor soil that
dries out, but it's the heat, I think that does them in. Pity as
they are incredible. Seem to thrive in the PNW...but what doesn't
except sweet corn and tomatoes?
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@clark.net
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> From: Blee811@aol.com
>
> 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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