Re: Killing Corydalis solida
- Subject: Re: Killing Corydalis solida
- From: M* T*
- Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 04:33:32 -0400
Hmmm...well, guess I'm lucky I've got the ordinary one...seems to do
fine in a bed of rotted woodchips in the shade...I won't tell it it
is not supposed to like this:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: ECPep@aol.com
>
> Ain't it awful Bill. There are just some of these small treasures
that do
> not do well in rich and improved border soil. I know that I hauled
compost
> and manure and leaves and anything else I could get my hands on and
did most
> of the beds right on top of the original soils because of all the
rocks here.
> Only then did I find that some of these little plants from high
altitudes
> or arid winter climates do not like border soils.
>
> This does not mean that they can be grown bone dry. Most of them
have a
> natural rainy season so while in full growth, need water.
>
> C.solida is an easy plant and has some very beautiful cultivars.
The
> ordinary purplish one is still a great spring plant. Plus, this is
the easy
> one.
>
> Bill, my husband made a little plaza of flat rocks surrounded by
mounds of
> vinca. He did this because I have a big wooden garden bench and he
was tired
> of moving it every time he drove by with one of his big lawn
machines. I
> planted a few things in the spaces between the flat rocks (could be
slates)
> and found they absolutely thrived. The bench plaza is gone and the
area is
> now a garden. This borders the gravel driveway and it is a great
place for
> many of these small plants with a special needs. I am able to grow
a plant
> called Lewisia nevadensis there, grows all over the rocks and seeds
well.
> Lewisia is a hard plant to grow in the East, mine all grown by
accident. The
> C. solida seeds in this environment.
>
> There is Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden (Wooster) and The Dry Garden
by Beth
> Chatto. Two books explaining the principles. I think we got
started around
> here from the awful soil unlaid with shale and rock plus the nearly
four year
> drought we had a few years back.
>
> It is rain again, all week for us. Tomorrow looks like the only
good day.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
>
>
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