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  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,614

    lovely pots , fairygirl

  • Forester2Forester2 Posts: 1,477

    Like your white crocus Fairy.  White is not used enough in gardens as we all tend to go for the bright colours.

  • SwissSueSwissSue Posts: 1,447

    Just wandered around your estate, Berghill, it's beautiful and so big!image How do you keep on top of it all?

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,038

    SGL., picture 5 is Corydalis flexulosa. It likes to grow in shade, there is a beautiful sky blue variety but, unfortunately my is a muddy pink, but it does have beautiful ferny foliage. I started off with a couple of tubers/rhizomes and, they have now spread to form a large colony.

    sorry should read flexuosa

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,605

    Many thanks Punkdoc, I have shady area, where they could go. They're very pretty.

  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    Sorry Puncdoc, but No 5 is Corydalis solida. Flowers and foliage are different with C. flexuosa. I have a large number of C. solida in all sorts of colours, but there a dozens and dozens more I would like to get, but the prices...........sheesh!

    Sorry, I cannot find a decent picture of any of my solida to show you.

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,038

    Thanks Berghill, I am sure I bought them as flexuosa, but you obviously know your Corydalis. I shall look for some pictures.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307

    C. flexuosa is always blue or blue and white, never purple or pink. It is also does not grow from a corm, rather it has scaly roots which is what makes it easy to propagate from division. Also it grows over Winter then dies down in mid-summer and starts again in autumn. C. solida ( and others) grow from corms. They begin in Spring, flower and set seed and have disappeared by early summer. They are a bit like Crocus and Snowdrops in that respect.

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,605

    image

     Thank you both, will look out for some.

    Corydalis solida ---found this image

  • star gaze lilystar gaze lily Posts: 17,605

    How weird got all mixed yp 

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