Re: Corydalils lutea or flava
- Subject: Re: Corydalils lutea or flava
- From: B*@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 21 May 2002 08:18:45 EDT
In a message dated 5/21/02 1:10:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@aol.com
writes:
> No, I am not sure. It was given to me as C. lutea and I know it is not
> ochreleuca. I don't think I can ID C. flava without some checking so I
> will
> have a look in the books. I sure have a lot of it. I really have
> seedlings
> everywhere. I thought the mild winter might have encourgaged all this
> germination.
===>I was pretty sure this yellow-blooming corydalis of mine was not lutea
and last month a bulb expert from Latvia, Janis Ruksans, visited my garden as
part of the daffodil convention and told me what I had all over the place was
flava, which I suspected from the limited research I was able to do. There's
not a lot published on corydalis. when flava first emerges in the spring,
it's pretty nice looking. As the season goes on it gets quite rangy. But it
is incredibly invasive--not that hard to remove, but it has spread over 100
feet here.
>
> On the Alpine list it has been stated that C. elata, a blue one is easy to
> grow. I may pick that up if I find it. One nursery I have visited has
> eleven
> species in their shade selection. I am not a corydalis fan but thought the
>
> yellow ones were good fillers in the rocky garden. Corydalis solida is a
> neat plant. Also so easy.
===>I've become a fan. I've lost elata, even though I too was told it's
relatively easy. I think siting is the key to corydalis. Last fall I planted
25 bulbs of solida and haven't seen a single one. If you're looking for a
blue-flowered one, see if that nursery has one called 'ex Dufu Temple'--Linda
and I both bought it last year from the same nursery and it never even went
dormant. It has increased in size this year and is blooming. I don't know
whether it is an elata or a flexuosa.
>
> I just thought I would like the yellow one that was easy to grow. Now I
> have
> an invasion. Bill, do like this plant you have in such numbers? Mine has
>
> pretty blue lacy foliage, not too many flowers and doesn't seem to have any
>
> troubles with insects or drought.
===>I liked it better when it was just a few plants on the edge of the woods.
>
> We also have two nights of killing frosts and the results of that Sunday
> snowstorm which froze the tops off all the hostas. In the merry, merry
> month
> of May! Half opened lilacs were lying flat on the ground here.
===>That's so sad. It has been a strange May, hasn't it? Here the threats of
a freeze didn't happen, although I think parts of Cincinnati did get some
scattered frost.
>
> This year I also have millions of hosta seedlings. There is just that
> difference if your temperatures don't go below 20 degrees for any length of
>
> time. Poppies are pretty numerous as well. Forget-me-nots and lunaria are
> also pesty now. Both pretty pests.
===>I don't know why, but some of my rampant self-sowers haven't produced
this year. I don't even see any Verbena bonariensis coming up!
> Bill Lee
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