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VoodooChile
11-14-2004, 12:34 PM
POTW26 is a garden gypsy, showing up in all manner of partly sunny to fully shady places. PM me with your guess. Winners posted next Sunday.
VoodooChile
11-14-2004, 12:35 PM
POTW26 blooms from early summer until hard frost.
jwholden
11-14-2004, 02:55 PM
PM sent
justgardens
11-14-2004, 05:16 PM
PM sent
VoodooChile
11-14-2004, 07:02 PM
POTW26 today after the third hard frost, one as low as 25F.
VoodooChile
11-18-2004, 11:28 PM
Time to bring POTW26 back to the top of the list and see who else can i.d. this long-blooming herbaceous perennial???
dan deutekom
11-19-2004, 07:25 AM
Couldn't send my answer because your mailbox is full. I will try again tonight:D
VoodooChile
11-19-2004, 09:34 AM
Mailbox emptied, fire away with your guesses!
dan deutekom
11-19-2004, 04:03 PM
pm sent
VoodooChile
11-22-2004, 08:23 AM
We'll give this thread one more day, because with all the activity on the boards here last week, I suspect it got lost in the shuffle.

Winners posted Tuesday morning!
dan deutekom
11-22-2004, 06:59 PM
New pm sent
jwholden
11-22-2004, 08:19 PM
Voodoo,

Any shots of that plant in the blue form?
dan deutekom
11-22-2004, 08:29 PM
Thanks John
Now you confirmed my second guess at it:D
NCSULandscaper
11-22-2004, 09:17 PM
sent my PM
VoodooChile
11-22-2004, 09:31 PM
John,
The genus to which POTW26 belongs includes several blue flowering species, but I haven't had much success yet with those...details tomorrow when I post the answer and the names of the many winners!:D
VoodooChile
11-23-2004, 09:12 AM
POTW26 is Yellow Fumitory, Corydalis lutea.

Congratulations to Justgardens, JWHolden, dan deutekom, HRLand, NC Lawnscapes, NCSULandscaper, and spiderlily for getting it right. :cigar:

Corydalis is a genus with several nice perennials. The only other one I've had success with is C. elata which has blue flowers and takes the dry shade found under Norway Maples.

Anyone else have some stories to share about Corydalis sp.???
VoodooChile
11-23-2004, 06:13 PM
Oh yeah...there was also a cultivar of C. flexuosa called 'Blue Panda' that was available around here for a while, but didn't take to our zone 4/5 Winters...anybody tried these other Corydalis species???

I should add that POTW26 really rocks:flex: in shady situations, blooming for a good FOUR MONTHS in southern 'Sconi, and nicely self-sowing to fill in the gaps between Hostas, Bugloss, Barrenwort, and other clump-forming, low-growing perennials...

So trash those browned out Ostrich Ferns and that rampaging Bishop's Weed and plant some Yellow Fumitory instead!