Bulbs: Simple Pleasure: Narcissus pseudonarcissus., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Toxi I love the little orchid, it does look like a sort of hardy paph., they are my favourite orchid.

andy I have Osmunda regalis purpurascens which is just starting to get a little size, and O. cinnamomea which is very small, it is nice to see them growing in the wild. I am amazed the arisaemas are growing in such a cold climate, I was under the impression they were on the slightly tender side.

Robert I have 2 lots of interesting plum coloured peony flowered P somniferum from ebay and neither lot grew, yet they set themselves so easily. I have been tempted by Oxalis Iron Cross, but my daughter has some so......

I really should make the effort to grow more of the Corydalis flexuosa, the best clump I had was destroyed by moles, I only have a small patch of the original left. The plant was only small originally and I got about 28 plants to grow from tiny crowns, given the right treatment they grow quickly. It is nice to have the foliage over winter, and spring flowers.

I have got a new one I got in 2004, it is flowering for the first time now and flowers summer and again in autumn supposedly. The flowers are slightly smaller but a really bright rich blue, it spreads well and is more permanent in the garden according to the seller. It is called C. elata x flexuosa clone1. No name, there is a clone2 also a bit darker blue, developed by Tim Ingram I think is his name, sold by Longacreplants. It grows fairly tall, foliage quite like flexuosa. I am very pleased with it, I have taken some pics but the colour is difficult to capture, it really is amazing.