Re: corydalis

In a message dated 6/10/01 2:50:29 AM Eastern Daylight Time, mtalt@clark.net 
writes:

<< 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.
===>Marge, except for the flower color, this description sounds exactly like 
what I've got.  But the flowers are decidedly yellow.
 
 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.
===>Hope mine "takes".
 
 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?)...
===>The woman I got it from locally has it all over the place, so I think it 
must be pretty aggressive about seeding.
 
 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? >>
===>Oh, that PNW!  A few years ago I was trying to obtain a couple of 
mahonias.  Nobody locally carries them, although they used to--they all said 
there was no demand for them.  And then you see them growing rampantly along 
the highways in Oregon.  And in Seattle last spring I saw Erythroniums that 
knocked my socks off--huge flowers, very similar to our native here in the 
midwest, but probably three times their size.  I just know that planting one 
of them here in Cincinnati would be a death sentence to them.
Bill Lee

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