Somebody posted a picture of their campanula Glomerata Superba plant and it is beautiful! I have been very dissatified with my campanula glomerata "Bellefleur Blue" plant that I bought last year. Guess I bought the wrong one. Of all the garden catalogs I have rec'd so far, Bluestone is the only one that sells this plant..no seeds though. Mine only grows 4-8 inches tall and the one I want grows 1-2 ft. and has blooms like I want. American Meadows has it but in a light shade of blue(althought they call the color Emerald) Plants only..no seeds.
Does anybody know where I can purchase seeds for this plant?
campanula Glomerata Superba
Pippi21,
I bought Gomerata Superba from Bluestone last year. I'd be happy to mail you a division in the spring if you'd like me to. I can also try to collect some seeds after it blooms. I'm a little nervous about this plant b/c I've read that that it can be pretty aggressive. If it starts to take over my garden, I'll be happy to send you a whole bunch of it! Has your Bellefleur Blue been invasive?
Has anybody in our zone had any experience with this plant? I'd be interested to see whether it was aggressive in your gardens.
I just planted it in 2009 and I'm not sure if it even bloomed. The Bellefleur blue only gets 4-8 inches tall. I had seen the clustered bellflower on some gal's pics over on the perennial thread on HGTV gardening website and I loved it and have been looking for it. I'll order from Bluestone, probably in late March. We usually can't put flowers in the ground until the first week of May, which is our last frost date plus the soil doesn't warm up until about mid May. We've had early springs where it gets warm for a week and everybody heads for the garden centers and goes hog wild buying and then we have a cold snap or frost and they lose them all. One year this happened to us and our Dazzler Petunias and astilibe got hit hard, but survived but didn't do that well that year and I think it was because it got hit by the cold. Look at Mid-Atlantic Gardening category at Hart(Shenadoah, Va.)
You'll see her picture of it.
http://www.jlhudsonseeds.net/SeedlistCA.htm
bout half way down listed like third under the campanula
2.50 a seed pack
Pam, the campanula bellefleur blue plant has bloomed. Don't know if it was the two rainstorms we had last night but today, the blossoms look like they are done for. Do I deadhead it to encourage more blooms or is this plant a one time bloomer? How do you propagate this plant? Take cuttings and stick in rootone and potting mix or divide later on. I think this is only the 3rd. year for it so one is bigger than the other, planted at opposite ends of the flowerbed. Maybe the soil is richer at one end vs the other. LOL! Do you know anything about Siberian wallflowers? Bought 3 this Spring and they have bloomed. I cut back the spent stem hoping it would rebloom for me. Can't seem to find any information on this plant. Somebody had a yellow/orange one but mine is purple.
Will somebody please read my previous message and answer so I'll know what to do with this plant?
You should have let your English Wallflower reseed itself. It has a tendency to act like a biennial, so this years seedlings would have been next years flowers.
I've never had campanula re-bloom nor have I forced propagation. I have successfully divided them.
mao