Meet Beth Evans....

Corydalis is the gift that keeps on giving... and giving, Charlie Wilkins reports

Pale green foliage and delicate, pink-spurred flowers only a few inches tall are the hallmarks of Corydalis Beth Evans, a woodlander that loves Irish weather conditions and the kind of soil that remains moist even in the height of summer.

Fragile-looking plants sometimes surprise by turning up year after year with little or no help from me! Garden treasures are like that; they come and go, sometimes in places I least expect. Over time, many ‘buried treasures’ have come to me from like-minded friends, some long gone, but never forgotten. But then we all pass on, our gardens change, many disappearing or disintegrating in just a few seasons. That is of little importance. What matters is the continuing cycle of sharing and learning about plants, and perhaps a little bit of us will come to mind when plants given as gifts, suddenly re-emerge in someone else’s early spring garden.