Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Bold Corydalis
Corydalis Blackberry Wine is getting alarmingly frisky, with our unseasonable warm weather, and I fear for it when the predicted return to winter cold occurs in a few days. Tom Skilling of WGN weather is more strongly predicting a buckling of the jet stream over the eastern half of the country starting this weekend, and worsening early next week, ushering in a return to snow and artic air. The brunt of both the snow and cold should be east of us, more over the Great Lakes, but we will be dropping our temperatures by twenty to thirty degrees also. I don't like having to baby plants, but I might just dump some leaves on Blackberry. I recently mentioned that, along with everybody else in the warm summer areas of the country, over the last few years I watched my sky blue Corydalis flexuosas melt away in the heat (it would be nice if Terra Nova set up a southern test station before they start national distribution on some of these plants). However I am making some baby steps back into the genus, and am actually getting some insight on what will grow here, and perhaps why... after some more observation, I'll make some comments; I want to see how C. flexuosa 'Purple Leaf' does this year. 
// posted by IBOY @ 8:33 AM 
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My corydalis (I think it is also "blackberry wine") is green, too. I can't be certain, but I think it remained green all winter.
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