Specialty Gardening: By special request., 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
Perhaps you need to be a gardener to be or what we see as normal!

Corydalis flexuosa can be a tricky one, I have some in a spot where it remains perennial, a mole killed off another very good patch. I grew a lot from the original plant and planted them in the hosta bed when it was new, the foliage grows over winter and flowers for a long time in spring, it was spectacular but with the hostas growing over them they eventually disappeared, they got a sort of rot.

I have Geranium Ann Folkard and Summer Skies growing a little further up, plus more in gaps between the iris, poppies and tradescantia etc. They fill in nicely.