Re: Corydalis photos

In a message dated 5/24/02 10:52:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Blee811@aol.com 
writes:

<< > Is this, indeed, Corydalis lutea?
 > 
 
 I think so, Don. It's certainly not the one I have that I think is C. 
 flavula. It looks more like what I saw at Gene's last weekend, right Gene?
 Bill Lee >>


I think I have it now.  Bill has the native plant flavula.  I have C. Lutea. 
Thanks to all for contributions and photographs.  I wish I was more 
successful with photographs.

Bill and Gene have a kinder climate so if you sent your plant up here, it 
would probably freeze up often enough to keep it polite.

C. lutea is a very nice plant which.
 looks smashing with blue Violas.  Unfortunately it likes to seed into rocks 
and gravel driveways and that sort of place.  It may not be as fertile in 
garden plots but it sure has covered an entire rock garden here requiring 
scarfing out with a curved knife.  It likes to seed in protected pockets and 
then makes large plants which continue the process.

Maybe your native flavula would behave better here.

I was at a rocks meeting last month and the speaker showed slides of the 
Uzbekistans and and the other stans. She said with some disdain that 
Corydalis was now popular and she had no liking for it, it was flooding the 
markets, all kinds.  There are a great many on the market.

<<<easily.  I have gotten rid of two other yellow flowered ones.  This spring 
I
got C. linstoniana (sp?) which is described as being of the habit of lutea
but blue>>> from Frank Cooper, I will look around for this one.  The blues 
are not as vigorous as the yellows.  I have not seen a recommendtion for 
linstoniana but there is some interest in C. elata.  If they all need the 
same growing conditions, they are the type of plant that seeds in the gravel 
driveway.

Sometimes the gravel driveway does better than the gardens, there is always 
lots of stuff coming up out there.  Sometimes it seems one can skip a step 
and put the seed directly into the driveway.

I tried and tried to grow Anacyclus depressus and succeeded only when it 
moved into the driveway.  No class, that plant.  Now it is all over the 
driveway.

Claire Peplowski
NYS z4

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