campanula get mee question

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Beeker Milford, MA Mar 15, 2010

I just bought a campanula get mee at the supermarket a few weeks ago. It was so charming, I had to have it, and the care tag looked pretty simple. Since I bought it, it seems to have gone downhill. I noticed when I first bought it, that the soil was wet. I figured that they had watered it quite a bit not to long before I bought it. But it took almost two weeks for it to dry out. I felt the soil. It was still a bit damp, but not as wet as it was before, so I watered it a little. Again, it seems soaked. I took it out of the decorative pot it came in a few days ago to see if that helps it dry out a bit, and just a few minutes ago, I took it out of its pot altogether. It is so wet! The soil and roots are all holding together in the shape of the pot, so it should be ok to put back, but I want it to dry out a bit, since I think the excess water might be the reason that it is diminishing.

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ecrane3 Dublin, CA(Zone 9a) Mar 15, 2010

Does the pot have a drainage hole? A lot of times the things you get at the grocery store in decorative pots don't have drainage holes, and that makes them very easy to kill with overwatering. So I'd either repot it into something that has drainage, or else drill some holes in the bottom of the container it's in.

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