Northeast Gardening: Reviewing 2015 Projects and Plants, Challenges and Results, 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
Campanula can be wonderful or a major pain.

Campanula trachelium Bernice is a beautiful plant that stays put. If I want more, I have to divide it. If you put in three clumps, you have three clumps. Lovely!1st picture.

Caampanula takesimana Bellringers is aggressive enough to require division every two years, minimum. But it is great in open areas in sun and shade - where you have room, and want to keep other plants at bay. I established it around creeping Charlie and violets, and between peonies, and it\'s doing a nice job. But it forms large and ever expanding clumps. The leaves are pretty. 2nd and 3rd pictures. In the third I divided the original plants and put them in my back yard with misnamed peonies.

Campanula rapunculoides is a horrible thug that I never put in my yard but allowed to spread. It climbs into everything and spreads by underground runners. It comes from two yards around me and I spend considerable time digging it up because that is the only way to contain it. It turned up about three years ao and I thought it was pretty. BEWARE!