Miscellaneous Woodlanders

[WimB]

Todd and Lori,

did you ever try Corydalis x 'Craigton Blue' from Ian Young? It grows very easily in almost any condition (I grow it in the shade but I've seen it grown in full sun too). Or do you want to grow a pure species blue one?

Todd, love the reddish Pulmonaria. A very nice color.

[WimB]

Some other shade-plants...more for the leaves than for the flowers and very prone to slug-damage:

Mini-hosta's:

'Cat's Eye'
'Dew Drop'
'Pandora's Box'
'Sunlight Child'
venusta 'Minuet

[WimB]

And some more flowering shade-lovers which I almost forgot:

Meconopsis quintuplinervia x betonicifolia (a perennial form)
Paris bashanensis
Primula japonica 'Miller's Crimson'
Ramberlea
Ramonda myconi 'Alba'
and Ramonda myconi

[stephenb]

Pulmonaria montana blooming at the moment, along with Helleborus orientalis and first Corydalis solida.

Your lungwort looks like what I have under the name P. rubra, an occasional garden escape around here - it's also in flower here:

[RickR]

Rick, for some reason my B. ciliata never sets seed     I've had many requests over the years.

Er...um... not that I don't like your Bergenia, Todd, but I was hinting to Trond about seed from for his blue Corydalis.   
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The corms of Aconitum incisifidum are evident in this photo:

[cohan]

Wim, I must be mistaken-- I thought I remembered you said you had a small garden? But the plants keep coming.......
nice blue cory for sure

[WimB]

Wim, I must be mistaken-- I thought I remembered you said you had a small garden? But the plants keep coming.......
nice blue cory for sure

Small garden, packed with plants 

[Tim Ingram]

Just to go back to Ypsilandra from earlier in this thread - they propagate well from leaf cuttings, either cut into short sections or simply looped into the compost, they will root at both ends. This is a great way of propagating quite a range of plants (also good for Eucomis), and always quite a surprise when you prick out the small plantlets. Having said that I struggle with it here through our dry summers but it can make a superb specimen in a pot.

[IMYoung]

Just to go back to Ypsilandra from earlier in this thread - they propagate well from leaf cuttings, either cut into short sections or simply looped into the compost, they will root at both ends. This is a great way of propagating quite a range of plants (also good for Eucomis), and always quite a surprise when you prick out the small plantlets. Having said that I struggle with it here through our dry summers but it can make a superb specimen in a pot.

I did not know that Ypsilandra would come from leaf cuttings.... will be trying it soon, though.... thanks Tim!

MY

[Hoy]

Trond, Corydalis turczaninovii is tuberous, I think.  Could that be it?

Very nice, indeed.  Wouldn't mind any seed of that, if it makes any...

OK, I'll be at the lookout! The oldest flowers fade now and I can discern small seedpods. Hope they last!
I think I have planted turczaninovii from Janis once, so maybe . . . .

[Hoy]

Just to go back to Ypsilandra from earlier in this thread - they propagate well from leaf cuttings, either cut into short sections or simply looped into the compost, they will root at both ends. This is a great way of propagating quite a range of plants (also good for Eucomis), and always quite a surprise when you prick out the small plantlets. Having said that I struggle with it here through our dry summers but it can make a superb specimen in a pot.

I did not know that Ypsilandra would come from leaf cuttings.... will be trying it soon, though.... thanks Tim!

MY

Neither did I. I will try if my plant survive. It is suffering badly from the harsh winter.

[Diane Clement]

I did not know that Ypsilandra would come from leaf cuttings.... will be trying it soon, though.... thanks Tim!  

It does! - and so does the related Heloniopsis.  The easiest way is to just push the end of a growing leaf in the compost.  The picture shows a couple of damaged leaves that were removed and put in compost

[Todd Boland]

Wim, you have some choice stuff there...months ahead of me...my hosta are not even showing themselves.  I have never seen that blue cory for sale in canada.  I expect the tuberous types would do better here.  C. solida is now seeding into my lawn!  That one is almost TOO prolific!

I must try the leaf cutting technique with the Heloniopsis....it would be nice to get more of that one.

[McDonough]

Lots of good thought-provoking posts here, I'm just catching up. I too had no idea about the possibility of leaf cuttings with Ypsilandra & Heloniopsis, go figure.

Wim, no one has yet commented on your Ramberlea. I assumed this to be an intergeneric hybrid between Ramonda and Haberlea, and googling it, it is certainly the case.  What comes up in Google is one called x Ramberlea 'Inchgarth' (Ramonda myconi var. alba x Haberlea rhodoptera 'Virginalis').  All that I see photos of have blue lavender flowers, on your x Ramberlea plant the flowers look near white.  Are there additional color forms resulting from that intergeneric cross?  I really like your R. myconi var alba, looking happy indeed.

Some links I found:
http://www.kevockgarden.co.uk/plantlist/ramberlea_inchgarth.htm
http://www.gesneriadsociety.org/Membership/ForMembershipBanner/XRamberlea_inchgarth.htm
http://www.srgc.org.uk/discus/messages/283/14204.jpg

[McDonough]

Last year I was sent some rhizomes of Polygonatum roseum, and as I watched for signs of life this spring, I had all but given up hope, but should have known better... some Polygonatum species are late to emerge.  Sure enough it popped up, and at about 4" (10 cm) tall so far, it has a few cute little pink flowers.  Researching the species, it does grow up to 1-2' tall, although most sites report about 18" (45 cm).



The species description can be found in Flora of China (height there given as 40-80 cm):
http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027866

The plant range includes Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, & Russia, so no doubt the species will be variable across such a huge range.