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Oceans of blue over a sea of golden foliage New for 2024, this is a breath-takingly beautiful bloom which offers you delicate, ferny leaves with unusual golden hues. These mature to form generous spreading clumps. In late spring to early summer strong, upright red stems emerge bearing generous clusters of blue purple, elongated tubular blooms. Flowers have a captivating, sweet, lilac-like fragrance which eagerly drifts around the garden on warming spring breezes. Corydalis ‘Golden Spinners’ is a pollinator friendly plant which offers weed-suppressing groundcover for most of the year. A perfect addition to wildlife gardens, rockeries and containers – plants happily settle and spread in a partially shaded spot with moist, well-drained soil of any kind. Once established, you may well get a second flush of flowers in late summer to early autumn, once the weather begins to cool from the heat of high summer. Corydalis ‘Golden Spinners’ reaches a height and spread of up to 50cm and like
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Key Information
Latin Name | Corydalis ‘Golden Spinners’ |
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Hardiness | H5 (-10 to -15°C) |
Colour | Blue |
Format | 9cm Pots |
Position | Part-Shade, Part-Sun |
Foliage | Semi-Evergreen |
Soil Conditions | Chalk Clay Loam Sand |
Soil Acidity | Acid Alkaline Neutral |
Aspect | East-facing, South-facing, West-facing |
Scented | Yes |
Good for pots | Yes |
Good for Rockeries | Yes |
Good for wildlife | Yes |
Good for pollinators | Yes |
Good for cutting | Yes |
Good for groundcover | Yes |