Yellow corydalis is a real charmer. Take a little plantlet, tuck it in a shady area and in a few weeks it stands healthy, broad and tall...Read More with abundant cheery yellow flowers. It will reseed and spread easily whether you want it to or not. I use it with ferns, hosta, heuchera, liriope, foamflower, yarrow, ginger, solomon's seal, astilbe, epimedium,hakone grass, and pulmonaria. Hot and dry or damp and cool doesn't seem to matter much. Mine are all in areas that drain well and my soil is rich and moderately acidic. It is a flash of yellow all summer in the shade garden. I have some in the sun and the leaves seem to wash out a bit, but the flowers are still abundant. One caution: along with reseeding enthusiastically a clump can get pretty darn large in two or three years.
Yellow corydalis is a real charmer. Take a little plantlet, tuck it in a shady area and in a few weeks it stands healthy, broad and tall...Read More