Campanula Species, Bellflower, Canterbury Bells

New flower buds often form right at the base of the first flowers. So if you snip off each spent bloom individually more blooms will deve...Read Morelop. It's time-consuming but worth it -- these plants can keep going for months.

My favorite plant! After several yrs of trying, my best results were to scatter seeds in garden around July or Aug, separate about 6" a...Read Morepart in early Oct, cover with leaves to over-winter, & then divide once again in late April to 2' apart. I had to keep them moist that 1st year but they can endure it slightly dry the 2nd (blooming) year. They like good soil & a slight amt of fertilizer. They often need to be supported.
They grow beautiful in the mid-atlantic region. Shades of white, pink,light blue, & dark blue-purple I have seen, with an occasional in-between mix.
When grown in the garden, people are amazed because most have never seen them before ( some even think they are not real because they look so good).
In short, if you have the time & start out with many seeds ( I found out that about 1/3 of plants die in the spring), the resulting display will truly be worth it.

Large, beautiful bell shaped flowers. It does not have the "saucer" like some Cup and Saucer flowers do. Takes a fair amount of shade.<...Read Morebr />
Light aids germination of seeds.

I was amazed to see how long the flowers lasted out in the Southern California sun. I waited 10 days for more flowers to bloom before I t...Read Moreook a picture, and I only had to deadhead 5 or 6 flowers. Wow!

Very pretty biennial plant, I grew mine from seeds. It bloomed twice and produced big pods which had seeds I think, but they had dropped ...Read Moreout, when I tried to pick them, there were somekind of small sharp needles that stung me. So wear gloves if you try to collect them..

I sowed mine just outdoors, I bought a cheap packet of the seeds and I spread the seeds on top of the soil on a small shady area. They sprouted and I got many seedlings which from about 8 survived. I replanted them to half-shady area and next Spring they were still alive :D One bloomed. Other probably will bloom next summer.