The story of Corydalis , is interchangeable to that of Galanthus ( Snowdrops ) – it can be extremely collectable , yet the everyday garden can easily become garbled with the genus . Left to the collections of the hyper- experient gardener , who thirst after the finer species , I still believe that many of you’re able to taste some easier species – but OK , not this one !
There are many choice coinage usable , crop from bulbous gemstone like Corydalis solida , now available in a wide of the mark orbit of named and un - named selections , and many repeated species . more often than not speaking , the name cultivars and survival of the fittest of C. solida and related to bulbous species are both costly , and sell out quickly at the few European mail service order sources who carry them ( most cultivate their own varieties from seed ) . Even though many Corydalis are collectible , a few species can be weedy or even thugs . Related to our common garden perennial Dicentra , or the Bleeding Heart , a few Corydalis are quite rarified and collectible , which as you sleep with , I find very appealing .
This scandalmongering flowered species face just as stunning when not in flower , as the foliage is blue and almost succulent - like , not unlike a fern . First describe in 1903 by Chinese Wilson himself , C. wilsonii bears his name , and as a drop dweller , the species demands excellent air travel circulation . Clearly this is not a plant for everyone , but if you are up for a challenge ( which , naturally , I always am ) , it can be very rewarding . I like to fret , and this is a plant that reinforce the consciencous grower by flower and impressing other plant enthusiasts . It is a brag - rights industrial plant – what can I say .
If you have a greenhouse , and like to try it , seed can sometimes be find with a Google search from European informant , or source can be find in the semen exchange lists from the North American Rock Garden Society , or the Alpine Garden Society . My adept advice to those of you who might want to try tame a specimen , would be to provide a cold environment , one with first-class air circulation . I keep an inexpensive fan on the bench , which dry out of the leafage each morning , and I raise my plants in crushed Tufa rock ‘n’ roll , or holey limestone stone , with a piece of garden filth added in for nutrient .
Many gatherer have shared with me their succeeder stories as well as their disasters with this species . Most hold that the first find success , but soon after turn a loss their plants to botrytis – this is a plant which easily waste if expose to warm and humid temperature . New England is not the ideal climate , obviously . I think that it this plant is more of a biennial anyway .
C. winsonii is relatively well-to-do when young , and grown from seeded player ( my flora was provoke from NARGS seed sown in 2004 ) . In its lifelike environment , it grows comparatively dry , on rocky limestone drop-off . It has been collect at 3050 m in Hubei state , China , which offer a touch to the sorting of condition required for any succeeder . A true alpine house plant , raiser in the UK may have the best chance of success , especially if plants are keep under glass . The good news is that C. wilsonii is not shy to set source my plant form in profusion , and I ’ve read that it will self ejaculate around the greenhouse , ( Liden , Zetterlund ; 2007 ) , but I seem to drop when the cum abridgement are right . Still , I get seedings in the pot .
