That's really pretty. Maybe one advantage of your zone is that these delicate

ephemerals don't disappear in summer.

Floral_uk, the summer has been abnormally cool with good rains. the plant sits in semi shade with roots in nice light soil. A good bit of feeding after the first flush gave it an energized boost to push out a mass of foliage and prompt a tad bit of additional bloom, again the fragrance is stellar and wafts about. I have in the past grown other corydalis, only to be moving them all about while developing the yard that they perished in neglect, now have a few ideal locations to attempt to reobtain at least a few.

Very pretty indeed! We have had the opposite. For the 3rd year in a row extremely hot and dry. I do adore blue so this tugs at me. I am very happy to see it doing so well for you.

Peren.all, I heard it being the third coolest summer for my region since '85, or something like that, though by no means a terrible season with gardens and field crops being bountiful. Nice as well only once I've needed to give the gardens a drink and neither has my blue grass lawn burnt to a crisp. Also, very few days of smoke filled skies, the fires mostly being Saskatchewan and eastward, heat is setting in now and hopefully does not spark more fires.

Jay, thanks for the comment ... corydalis aurea is a native weedy annual / biannual that is briefly attractive before it sprawls and splays apart, excellent pollinator plant though! Have rarely come across a lovely little pink and yellow species. Hopefully, I can update next year of C. calycosa thriving, the scent is enough to curl toes! I also was unaware of the medicinal value of some of these.

Oh, I also fell for those blue corydalis...but that was when I was still following the various horticultural marketing hurrahs. One of the many fails which eventually (but not without serious depletion of my wallet and imagined competence) convinced me to actually try to take note of what worked for my unique garden aspects (rubbish soil, distance from home, terminal inattention, dry dry dry). Not that I am no longer immune to fads and fancies....there are over a dozen plants from a weekend plant fair which will need dealing with (and all the biennials still to plant up). Just displacing energy on a screen...as you do (well as I do).

And as far growing the right plant in the right place..I have at least another coupla woodlanders which like moist shady soil....which I do not possess. But telling myself I will be punctilious with the watering can, I fear more future fails. Shame though, as patrinias are a lovely genus....

Suzy- i had 3 patrinas last year ; this year one. its a big girl at 6.5 feet,easily.

it needed transplanting but i read it mopes after. So i am waiting till spring against my will. i was sure the stems would bend and break. i ruined many fine tall plants by transplanting when it was the wrong time.

Because of your comment, i ask Is patrina shade tolerant?”

Update, was covered in about 30 bloom stalks, though the deer nipping some off. The wonderful clover scent drifts a bit on the breeze. I'll later cut it back, fertilize and enjoy a second smaller flush.

Just a portion of the plant is shown here, a real lovely!

I remember planting at least one variety of a blue flowered corydalis years ago but they never lasted more than a couple of seasons and in my climate they went into dormancy quite easily.

("Wildside Blue" and "Blue Heron" and as I recall each were fragrant)