Re: Corydalis and dry shade

Thanks for this response and others Gene.  Just read, also the one about
under a tree, and how far out..etc...good stuff!

You always contribute so much to this robin, and I just want to let you know
that it is appreciated!

Bobbie

Bobbie Brooks,  MA    zone 6.5
Gardens In An Old Fashioned Way
http://daylily.net/gardens/bobbiebrooks.htm
-----Original Message-----
From: GeneBush <genebush@OTHERSIDE.COM>
To: shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU <shadegardens@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Date: Saturday, October 07, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: [SG] Corydalis and dry shade


>Boy! Bobbie..
>    That is a bunch .... I am not in your area and handle things a bit
differently
>here nursery-wise, so I don't know how much help I can be. I find that
Corydalis
>lutea and ochr. resent winter wet... in fact they dissolve in pots here
over
>winter. (I do not use greenhouses here... everything rides outside with the
>weather in open cold frames) I have learned to leave them in the garden
until
>early spring and then pot up to very open coarse medium.
>    Dicentra exima is a native here... they are used to drying out a bit
during
>August through September. They respond very well to lots of humus in the
soil and
>consistent *moisture* (not wet), but too much and the heat cooks the roots.
One
>needs to be a bit careful not to love these plants to death.
>    Take a look at the stems and roots... almost succulent... full of water
>already.
>    Gene Bush     Southern Indiana    Zone 6a     Munchkin Nursery
>          around the woods - around the world
>genebush@otherside.com     http://www.munchkinnursery.com
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Bobbi Brooks <lilylady@PRODIGY.NET>
>Subject: Re: [SG] 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
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