Campanula, Peachleaf Bellflower 'Alba'

I planted 3 of these two years ago between red Double Knockout Roses. What a startling display!!!! I never dead headed them before, but i...Read More'll try it this summer. Until this year I felt they were ho hum. Now that they are large and full of blooms as are the roses, I want more!!!!!

Medium 2-3' - Plant 16" apart. Graceful spikes of white cup shaped flowers in early summer. Reblooms if spikes are cut.

I really love this plant! Ive had it for over four years now. It is in an area that is particulary tough and droughty; it does not have...Read More any problems with it. Mine blooms through the summer since I deadhead it often. It does reseed a lot, but should not be considered invasive since the seedlings are so easy to just pull up.

Sow seed in a baggy at 70*F. Approximately 34% of the seed could germinate between 7 - 11 days. This seed needs light in order to germi...Read Morenate.

In the baggy method, a relatively sturdy paper like coffee filter paper is moistened and then wrung until barely damp.
Place the seed in the center of the barely damp filter and pull 1/3 up over the seed, then the top 1/3 down over the seed and then fold the ends over the center. Place that arrangement along with a water-proof label (that can continue to be used later) inside a baggy and transplant as soon as they germinate. Some gardeners hang the baggies vertically.

To keep the filter paper from drying out, it may be necessary to occassionally spritz it from time to time with just enough spray of water to dampen it. Don't let germinating roots go too long before potting up or they may get tangled up in the filter paper.

We have enjoyed growing the blue form of C. persicifolia among the low-growing, pale apricot-yellow rose 'English Garden' in the past, and now a DG trader has shared seed of the white form and I can't wait to see its bells coming up behind candytuft over a wall, under the rose 'Cornelia'.