Re: Corydalis and dry shade

RE: corydalis - the yellow one, lutea? I believe.

I love it because of the deep grey green foliage and that it blooms all
season.  I have a good size plant from last year that thankfully gave me
some babies but i have not transplanted them yet.  They are not very big.
Wet season, maybe.  I would like to pot them up for sale, use them on
jobsites etc.

Any advice as to if this is too late, should I wait until next season, what
to pot in, when IS the best time to move them about, etc.

I gather that I cannot put them on jobs that I was planning on...where
woodlands AND irrigation  are placed?

Speaking of the above.  Could that be also why some good size plants of
Dicentra exemia rotted in an Aug planting? It gets very confusing between a
large plant wilting, and the dryness that it might need when established!
(or I might be all wet on that one).  Oh, and the same plants are placed in
other locations on the sight WITH irrigation, but without the complete
compost mixture that I use.

And people think gardening is easy huh?  Plant requirements and soil prep
are pretty darn important.

"PUT THE PLANT WHERE IT WANTS TO BE, NOT WHERE I WANT IT"!!!!

I keep saying it over and over, but darn it, there is the man controls
nature thing that happens too....

<BG>

Bobbie B, with an 'e' or as I sometimes use,  'BB'!  The techs have me down
without the 'e' and oh well, who cares?

Bobbie Brooks,  MA    zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: Bobbi Diehl <diehlr@INDIANA.EDU>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Friday, October 06, 2000 10:32 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] Corydalis and dry shade


>Cindy,
>I am not Gene, but I would say it is virtually impossible to have hostas
>and Corydalis in the same bed. Their moisture needs are too different. My
>C. lutea mostly grows in cracks in limestone walls, and in the gravel
>driveway. Neither of these environments ever get any supplemental
>watering. Both do get a bit of sun, however. I tried planting Corydalis in
>more civilized places, but it always seems unhappy and escapes, so I've
>given up and let it grow where it likes. I have C. ochroleuca doing just
>okay in an actual garden bed with well drained soil that rarely gets
>watered, but I think even that is too much for it.
>
>Bobbi Diehl
>Bloomington, IN
>zone 5/6
>
>On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Cindy Johnson wrote:
>> Hmmmm, maybe that's why my C. luteas are doing so well!  I've been trying
to
>> water that are more so my hostas would do better.  From what you say,
Gene,
>> would you expect my Corydalis to start to decline if I'm able to keep
more
>> moisture in the soil?
>>
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