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Title: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on April 28, 2022, 01:20:17 PM
I didn't find Corydalis thread for this year, so if there was one, please remove this.
Corydalis malkensis in the first pictures has spread very nicely.
In the second picture a self sown Corydalis, maybe solida, a very dark form.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Maggi Young on April 28, 2022, 01:44:04 PM
Ooh! That very dark corydalis is very nice!  I love that C. malkensis goes with every other plant around it.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on April 28, 2022, 06:16:12 PM
Thank you Maggi. :) It is so nice to have surprises from seedlings, and also this year there have been first time flowering C.malkensis seedlings outside this bed, so it is slowly spreading. I love it.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on April 29, 2022, 05:35:45 PM
I didn't find Corydalis thread for this year, so if there was one, please remove this.
Corydalis malkensis in the first pictures has spread very nicely.
In the second picture a self sown Corydalis, maybe solida, a very dark form.

I was just about to start one Leena, you beat me with resizing the pictures :)
Super nice dark C. solida!!!

They've been in flower here for a few weeks now; luckily it remains cold (too cold some days). All in all a good Corydalis season I would say.
C. solida first: general image, C. solida 'George Baker', a red one that I like even more and a surprise of this spring, which appeared among a purple clump.
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Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on April 29, 2022, 05:40:28 PM
C. malkensis is a good grower indeed, some are from your seeds :) I have few clumps mixed with other Corydalis and they are very pretty as well.
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C. paczoskii, a very delicate but tough species
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Corydalis cava fo. alba, from your seeds; second year to flower so it looks a bit more grown-up.
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C. cava ssp. marschalliana, first time flowering, I can imagine how more vigorous it will look in a few years. One can tell it is a tetraploid; mostly cream flowers, also light purple and white.
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Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on April 30, 2022, 10:08:59 AM
You have a good Corydalis season, Gabriela! :)
I'm happy that you have gotten flowering plants from my seeds, and C.malkensis really is on of my favourites, too.
Your white solida with purple lips looks very special!
And also C.cava subsp marschalliana, you have a lot of variation in their colours.
Here most Corydalis are still yet to come, only in the warmest bed those two were in flower. I fear I have lost my C.marschaliana 'Crimea'. It usually is early to come up, and there is no sign of it yet. I hope there are some seedlings from it alive. Most different solidas have survived this very bad winter, and also C.bracteata is ok, which I'm very happy. :)
And there are Corydalis seedlings germinated this spring in pots, so there will be more Corydalis in the future. :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on May 01, 2022, 08:22:59 PM
Thanks Leena, Corydalis wise it's been good indeed. On the shaded sides some C. solida only now start flowering. And it's supposed to remain cool for a while, which is good news. Some years we can have temp. 20+C in May.

I hope your C. marschalliana 'Crimea' will show up, it is an impressive specimen. Maybe it is just slow to emerge.
Here C. bracteata showed up later than usual this spring.
Same here for the seedlings, there is always space for more Corydalis in the garden :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 05, 2022, 10:25:17 AM
It seems that C.cava and C.marschalliana have vanished last winter. C.cava did that once earlier, died after a cold winter, but then it re-established itself from seeds, so I'm hoping the same happens now.
C.bracteata however is doing well, as it should be (it is from Siberia). Here is the first one of them flowering.
And another one coming up behind Trillium nivale.
Corydalis solida are now starting to flower, so they will be in full bloom maybe next week
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: MarcR on May 09, 2022, 03:38:02 AM
Gabriela,

Lovely pictures of splendid plants!
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on May 09, 2022, 10:55:45 PM
Thanks Marc.

They got the weather forecast wrong and summer like weather is with us now, and very sunny. C. nobilis is starting to flower, all the others will set some seeds, or not, and become dormant fast.
C. caucasica
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C. bracteata
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Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 10, 2022, 06:20:00 PM
Gabriela, very nice Corydalis, there can't be too many of them. :)

Also here Corydalis solida have started to flower. It seems this year everything comes up and flowers almost at the same time.
Here are couple of pictures from last night.
Most plants in the first picture are self sown seedlings, all kinds of colours.
In the second the pink in the right is 'Pink Smile' and red in the far left 'King Arthur', the others are seedlings from these two.
Third picture is 'Evening Shade', and in the last picture the red C.solida in the back is 'Cantata'.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Mariette on May 10, 2022, 07:14:04 PM
Leena and Gabriela, Your corydalis make a wonderful show! Especially lLeena´s dark C. solida and Gabriela´s white one with the blue lip make me curse the rodents in my garden. I´ve lost almost all of my special selections sooner or later.
There are advantages in a colder climate like Yours! After several attempts, I had to accept that species like C. bracteata. ornata and turtschaninovii need a more contnental climate than mine to survive. Alas, they are among the most beautiful!
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 11, 2022, 08:00:44 PM
Mariette, thank you. :)
C.bracteata seems easy in my garden, but blue ones are difficult even here.
I have bought C.turtschaninovii several times, and most are alive, but not doing well. They don't increase, and sometimes disappear for no reason.
C.ornata I lost the first winter.
2016 I bought C.fumariifolia subsp azurea, and first spring it didn't flower. Then I thought I had lost it, but suddenly this year I found it flowering!!
The very divided leaves in the picture belong to Corydalis buschii, which is spreading fast.

Another peculiar blue one is Corydalis turtschninovii stoloniferous, bought from Sulev Savisaar in 2017. It flowered for the first time maybe two years later, and slender stems come up from some distance from each other. It is not flowering yet, but I wanted to show it anyway. Don't mind C.malkensis seedling in front of it.
Sulev wrote in his catalogue that this plant was collected from near Gorniye Kluci in Far East, Primorskiy kray 1987 by Irina Špak.
I didn't plant it under the stone, it has moved itself there.

Last picture is a seedling of C.solida, quite unusual colour.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on May 11, 2022, 08:01:50 PM
They all look so nice Leena, especially with some snowdrops and Hepatica flowers at the same time. The spring flowering was more spaced out here this spring.
It seems that some Pink Smile also ended up in my garden :) I noticed a nicer pink than others in a clump of mixed Corydalis I grew from you. Almost all C. solida is faded now, except few on very shaded spots; 27C today!
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Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 11, 2022, 08:05:26 PM
'Pink Smile'-types are very nice!

27C today!
27C!!
Here it was  12C today, and after very late spring, also May seems to be colder than usual. Which is good, because there is so much to do in the garden, and flowers stay longer when it is cooler.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on May 11, 2022, 08:20:03 PM
'Pink Smile'-types are very nice!
 27C!!
Here it was  12C today, and after very late spring, also May seems to be colder than usual. Which is good, because there is so much to do in the garden, and flowers stay longer when it is cooler.

Yes, they are!
This weather comes at a very bad moment, I had to stop all new plantings and installed shaded cloth over newly planted...Many plants just 'exploded' in flower in the last two days, and of course they will fade fast because there is also no rain in sight.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 12, 2022, 07:12:55 PM
I hope your weather will get cooler soon. Here spring is still 2-3 weeks behind normal. Farmers haven't been able to start sowing yet, when normally they start at the end of April.
In my garden I haven't been able to plant anything outside yet (edible plants), but hopefully can plant my broccoli next week.

Here are some more Corydalis.
First is a very dark form of C.caucasica, called 'Borodino', and also second picture is the same, but self sown seedling.
In the third picture there are my seedlings from Corydalis wendelboi 'Abant Wine'. Sadly I have lost AW, it got too crowded by Leucojum vernum I think, and it disappeared before I remembered to rescue it. My seedlings are mostly similar to the mother plant except one more red flowering seedling.
Pictures were from today (can you believe Eranthis came up only last week! I was sure they were lost.)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: kris on May 13, 2022, 08:38:47 PM
Corydalis is finally started flowering here. They give nice colour the whole garden. I have few of them and some are little earlier.
The  Corydalis solida pink smile  I got is from Leena as seed.  I think the white one is also from her.
When I gets the seeds to flowering lots of them are purple. May be that is the dominant colour.
The blue ones do very well  and flower nicely and multiply well.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: kris on May 13, 2022, 08:40:20 PM
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Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 21, 2022, 06:52:19 PM
When I gets the seeds to flowering lots of them are purple. May be that is the dominant colour.
The blue ones do very well  and flower nicely and multiply well.

I think purple/blueish dominates, too.

Kris, you have very nice Corydalis. C.repens is wonderful, so compact.

Here cool weather has prolonged Corydalis -season this year. They have flowered already for two weeks and still some new ones are starting to flower in shadier spots.
The whole May has been colder than normal, and night temperatures have been close to zero, still. It has also been very dry, in my garden there has been only 5mm rain since snow melted.

Here are some Corydalis pictures from past seven days.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 21, 2022, 06:57:10 PM
There has been some very nice seedlings, this year flowering for the first time.
The first pink one is quite big, but the third one is my favourite. I only found it today.
The last one resembles the third, but it has entire bracts.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 21, 2022, 07:05:56 PM
C.bracteata seedling with C.solida seedlings.
A sterile C.kuznetsovii hybrid 'Drops of Claret'
Third one is an interesting seedling. I really is pale blue, but I still think it is C.solida..

Last week-end I took a 13 min video of my Corydalis. I speak in it inFinnish, but I have written names of cultivars /species in the pictures. If there are no names, then they are seedlings.
This year has been a real Corydalis year for me! After many years of growing them, there are now lots of seedlings around, and also a lot of variation, but red ones are still my favourites. :)
https://youtu.be/nr38FDSb9mw
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: ashley on May 21, 2022, 08:31:38 PM
Your corydalis are magnificent Leena, and in company of hepaticas, hellebores, snowdrops and crocus - all long over here. 
How good to have had cool weather so they last longer.
Here gardening Finnish isn't often heard :), and I also enjoyed the spring birdsong with cranes nearby!
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on May 21, 2022, 08:59:53 PM
Beautiful Kris - especially C. repens which also has a nice foliage.

Leena - what a wonderful display of various Corydalis! Persevering for many years has really payed off.
After a cold, long winter is so rewarding to have this nice, enjoyable Corydalis season :)

Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on May 22, 2022, 08:17:50 AM
Your corydalis are magnificent Leena, and in company of hepaticas, hellebores, snowdrops and crocus - all long over here. 
How good to have had cool weather so they last longer.
Here gardening Finnish isn't often heard :), and I also enjoyed the spring birdsong with cranes nearby!

Thank you Ashley! :)
Cool weather has been very good for spring flowering plants. Spring was late this year but May has been a wonderful time now!
There are lots of birds singing now, and cranes were in a nearby lake. This is the best time of the year. :)

Leena - what a wonderful display of various Corydalis! Persevering for many years has really payed off.
After a cold, long winter is so rewarding to have this nice, enjoyable Corydalis season :)

Gabriela, you are so right. :) This year Corydalis season has been the best ever.
I was telling in the video how this was what I had dreamed of when I planted my first Corydalis in 2008, and now that dream had come true.
I had bought named cultivars few each year in hope that they will hybridize with each other and produce more wonderful plants.
During the years I have lost some Corydalis (of course mostly the most expensive ones), but they have managed to set seeds and now I think there are also descendants from them, too.
Lots of seedlings are flowering and nice variation in them. I can do plant hunting in my own garden. :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on May 23, 2022, 12:31:30 AM

Gabriela, you are so right. :) This year Corydalis season has been the best ever.
I was telling in the video how this was what I had dreamed of when I planted my first Corydalis in 2008, and now that dream had come true.
I had bought named cultivars few each year in hope that they will hybridize with each other and produce more wonderful plants.
During the years I have lost some Corydalis (of course mostly the most expensive ones), but they have managed to set seeds and now I think there are also descendants from them, too.
Lots of seedlings are flowering and nice variation in them. I can do plant hunting in my own garden. :)

Nothing better than having your dreams coming true Leena!
Indeed, the more seedlings, the more variations appear and nice surprises with them :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: MarcR on May 23, 2022, 06:00:41 AM
Kris and Lena,  Beautiful display! I have never pursued cultivars, though they are often more beautiful.  I have tried to collect as many species as possible and allow them to hybridize at random. I treat some of the results as weeds; but many are quite attractive.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on June 02, 2022, 09:39:20 AM
Last of the spring Corydalis are flowering still, two weeks later than usual.
Corydalis turtschaninovii,
Corydalis vittae, very nice and compact, always very late
Corydalis nobilis, a big corydalis
Corydalis buschii, small flowering but very well increasing by corms. One of my favourites.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 02, 2022, 10:22:58 AM
Leena, it seems to me that you have a big Corydalis collection  :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on June 02, 2022, 10:47:59 AM
Herman, they seem to like it in my garden. :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 02, 2022, 12:37:57 PM
Herman, they seem to like it in my garden. :)
Leena, maybe I should use them also more in combination with my Trilliums and Hepaticas.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: MarcR on June 03, 2022, 04:31:57 AM
Herman,

I think you will find them very rewarding.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 05, 2022, 04:20:02 PM
Which Corydalis are easy to grow (but not invasive) to combine with Trilliums and Hepatica's?
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on June 06, 2022, 06:46:28 AM
Which Corydalis are easy to grow (but not invasive) to combine with Trilliums and Hepatica's?

Herman, Corydalis are very nice for a short period of time in spring, and then they disappear until next year.
Mine are mostly different forms of C.solida, but they do produce seeds and may seed around too much for your liking.
I think hybrids with C.kuznetsovii would be good. They should  be sterile.
Leonid Bondarenko has bred them, and sells them. I don't know if they are available elsewhere. Some of them (of course especially the most red ones) are quite slow to increase from bulbs.
Cultivars like 'Boyar', 'Drops of Claret' and 'Cherry Lady', and there are also more of them.

Corydalis malkensis is one of my favourites, and the first one to flower, but it does increase with seeds. Though here it took ten years for seedlings to appear more.
Corydalis marschalliana 'Crimea' is now in Augis bulbs catalogue, it is a wonderful plant and big. Unfortunately it suffered a lot last winter, and is barely alive. I had to order another one, just in case winters like this come more often. I had seedlings from it, but also most of them disappeared last winter.

Blue bulbous Corydalis, like C.turtschaninovii, are very beautiful and special, and difficult to grow, but if you manage it, they would be really nice with Trilliums as they flower later than other bulbous Corydalis. Here they have never seeded around, and actually most have died, and the ones which are alive, don't increase. I'm still trying to find a spot to grow them which they would like!
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 06, 2022, 05:05:34 PM
Herman, Corydalis are very nice for a short period of time in spring, and then they disappear until next year.
Mine are mostly different forms of C.solida, but they do produce seeds and may seed around too much for your liking.
I think hybrids with C.kuznetsovii would be good. They should  be sterile.
Leonid Bondarenko has bred them, and sells them. I don't know if they are available elsewhere. Some of them (of course especially the most red ones) are quite slow to increase from bulbs.
Cultivars like 'Boyar', 'Drops of Claret' and 'Cherry Lady', and there are also more of them.

Corydalis malkensis is one of my favourites, and the first one to flower, but it does increase with seeds. Though here it took ten years for seedlings to appear more.
Corydalis marschalliana 'Crimea' is now in Augis bulbs catalogue, it is a wonderful plant and big. Unfortunately it suffered a lot last winter, and is barely alive. I had to order another one, just in case winters like this come more often. I had seedlings from it, but also most of them disappeared last winter.

Blue bulbous Corydalis, like C.turtschaninovii, are very beautiful and special, and difficult to grow, but if you manage it, they would be really nice with Trilliums as they flower later than other bulbous Corydalis. Here they have never seeded around, and actually most have died, and the ones which are alive, don't increase. I'm still trying to find a spot to grow them which they would like!
Thank you Leena
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on June 07, 2022, 09:27:56 PM
Which Corydalis are easy to grow (but not invasive) to combine with Trilliums and Hepatica's?

Herman, Leena answered very well your question.
I only want to add that my C. buschii doesn't produce seeds (it may be self incompatible). Same goes for C. nobilis, which would look magnificent with your Trilliums - as long as I had only 1 plant, there were never any seeds.

So, besides hybrid forms, you can also think about these who would need a partner in order to invade you with baby seedlings :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Rick R. on June 08, 2022, 12:46:29 AM
I have to add that there must be some variability with Corydalis nobilis self incompatibility.  My single plant does produce viable seed.  But while C. solida can be a bit invasive by seed, I've never had a problem with C. nobilis, and for me it seeds around just nicely.  FYI, I did grow the nobilis seeds in a pot one year, and I think every seed germinated.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 08, 2022, 08:26:52 AM
Gabriela and Rick, thank you for your information. I think I will find them in the Netherlands. So there is something to look forward. :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on June 08, 2022, 11:28:33 AM
Also here C.bushii does not set seeds, or at least I have never found them.

I agree that C.nobilis is not invasive, and it is very easy to remove if it grows in a wrong place.
Herman, if you want it, I can send you some roots when they start to go dormant in late June.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on June 08, 2022, 06:58:17 PM
I have to add that there must be some variability with Corydalis nobilis self incompatibility.  My single plant does produce viable seed.  But while C. solida can be a bit invasive by seed, I've never had a problem with C. nobilis, and for me it seeds around just nicely.  FYI, I did grow the nobilis seeds in a pot one year, and I think every seed germinated.

I will not contradict you Rick; there is so much variability in the plant world! Yes, the seeds sowed at the right moment germinate like cress.

Too bad I cannot send my 'sterile' plant to Herman! :)

Herman: for sure they are available in Belgium, or take up Leena's offer. Maybe you purchase by chance a C. buschii that set seeds and give some to us! At some point I looked to purchase another plant for cross pollination but couldn't find any.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 08, 2022, 07:38:47 PM
Also here C.bushii does not set seeds, or at least I have never found them.

I agree that C.nobilis is not invasive, and it is very easy to remove if it grows in a wrong place.
Herman, if you want it, I can send you some roots when they start to go dormant in late June.
Thank you Leena for your offer, but I think August will be a better time to send the roots.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 08, 2022, 07:47:28 PM
I will not contradict you Rick; there is so much variability in the plant world! Yes, the seeds sowed at the right moment germinate like cress.

Too bad I cannot send my 'sterile' plant to Herman! :)

Herman: for sure they are available in Belgium, or take up Leena's offer. Maybe you purchase by chance a C. buschii that set seeds and give some to us! At some point I looked to purchase another plant for cross pollination but couldn't find any.
Gabriela, I have found some Corydalis from a bulb nursery in the Netherlands were I ordered some bulbs a few years ago.
https://www.nijssentuin.nl/nl/183-corydalis
I need to wait till August for the new crop.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on June 09, 2022, 06:35:50 AM
Thank you Leena for your offer, but I think August will be a better time to send the roots.

I can't find the roots anymore after they go dormant. :(
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 09, 2022, 08:23:47 AM
I can't find the roots anymore after they go dormant. :(
Leena, you can put some roots in a pot and then let them go dormant completely.  :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on June 09, 2022, 07:10:29 PM
Gabriela, I have found some Corydalis from a bulb nursery in the Netherlands were I ordered some bulbs a few years ago.
https://www.nijssentuin.nl/nl/183-corydalis
I need to wait till August for the new crop.

Nice, and I saw they also have 'Boyar' which is sterile and very handsome. Plus some crazy prices for some species, I guess is the offer and demand. No one here would pay such prices for any Corydalis.

I have to transplant my C.buschii soon because it also doesn't increase; it cannot compete for moisture with 2 Epimediums close by. I will show the thin rhizomes so you won't be shocked when you get them.

And here's a picture with a young C. nobilis (this one made few seeds) and Glaucidium this spring.
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Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on June 09, 2022, 07:12:37 PM
Leena, you can put some roots in a pot and then let them go dormant completely.  :)

Leena, it's OK to keep it in a pot for a while. When we moved I potted one two times back and forth.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Gabriela on June 11, 2022, 06:41:04 PM
Here's the picture with Corydalis buschii tiny rhizomes Herman, and all others interested.
It seems I broke a few in the process but maybe this will stimulate the increase.

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Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 11, 2022, 07:33:55 PM
Here's the picture with Corydalis buschii tiny rhizomes Herman, and all others interested.
It seems I broke a few in the process but maybe this will stimulate the increase.

(Attachment Link)
Thank you Gabriela, the rhizomes are indeed very tiny.
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Leena on June 25, 2022, 12:59:33 PM
Leena, you can put some roots in a pot and then let them go dormant completely.  :)

Herman, I have now some roots for you in pot  :), and will send them later when it is best time for you. :)
Title: Re: Corydalis 2022
Post by: Herman Mylemans on June 25, 2022, 08:07:43 PM
Herman, I have now some roots for you in pot  :), and will send them later when it is best time for you. :)
Thank you Leena
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