A gorgeous plant that covers itself in true-blue flowers for a couple of months starting in late spring. This is heavily promoted in fash...Read Moreionable garden circles, partly because it's so challenging to grow.
This reportedly can do well in the Pacific Northwest, but it has a hard time with northeastern winters and our hot summers. It needs exquisite drainage and consistent moisture, and under the best of conditions it routinely goes summer dormant.
I came closest to success with this by planting it in pure sand. It bloomed its head off for over two months. Then it went dormant. I didn't see it the next year. Boston (Z6a)
There are other blue-flowered species of corydalis that may prove less challenging garden plants, especially C. elata, C. omeiensis, and C. x 'Boughton Blue'.
Has light-mid green leaves divided into 3 leaflets and each leaflet is divided into 3 lobes ...Read Morewhich gives the plant a soft fern like effect. Bears two lipped, blue, tube shaped flowers, each with a white throat.
Flowers between April-June.
Likes a fertile, leafy, moist, well drained soil in partial shade.
I've had trouble keeping this one so it now resides in a pot and kept in a cold greenhouse in winter where it appears to be very happy.
A gorgeous plant that covers itself in true-blue flowers for a couple of months starting in late spring. This is heavily promoted in fash...Read More
Slender perennial from China.
Has light-mid green leaves divided into 3 leaflets and each leaflet is divided into 3 lobes ...Read More