This plant is a winner in my Northern California (Sierra/Cascade foothills) garden. I don't get a lot of spread out of it, as it's dry as...Read More a bone where I don't irrigate. Grows well in fairly deep shade. USDA zone 8. ~3,000 feet in elevation. Snow does not bother it.
I inherited this groundcover and it is too rampant for my taste. I have spend 4 years trying to eradicate it as well as the weedy wild m...Read Moreorning glories that had taken over the rose garden. After a couple of years of digging them up by the roots whenever they appear the morning glories have given up but not the campanula. If I let it go for a few months it is all over everything as if I had never dug it up.
I haven't seen it spreading to the wild woods though. It likes water and garden conditions a little too well but I don't think it is an ecological threat. Probably ok to plant in places where you really don't want to ever grow anything else, or where you can't get anything else to grow. It is evergreen, freely flowering. I suppose if I didn't dislike it so much I would find it pretty.
Evergreen groundcover native to the northern Balkins. Grows to about 8 inches tall by 36 inches wide with heart-shaped, downy leaves and ...Read Moresmall, blue funnel-shaped flowers spring through fall with peak in mid-summer.
Plant grows well in Temecula, CA. We do get some frost but doesn't hurt the plant. Great ground cover ~ one that is easily pulled out i...Read Moren areas you don't want it. Not invasive. Highly suggest.
Have planted this in both mottled shade and full shade, with equally satisfying results. As a groundcover, the vibrant green offers vivid...Read More contrast in shady areas. The flowers are wonderfully bright, and the plant grows vigorously. A very satisfying ground cover. I combine with Siberian bugloss (variegated) and hardy cyclamen, peonies and heuchera.
Exuberent grower, makes a wonderful groundcover in sun or dark shade, although more floriferous in sun. The flowers are very long lastin...Read Moreg and produced over a long period of time.
This plant is a winner in my Northern California (Sierra/Cascade foothills) garden. I don't get a lot of spread out of it, as it's dry as...Read More
I inherited this groundcover and it is too rampant for my taste. I have spend 4 years trying to eradicate it as well as the weedy wild m...Read More
Evergreen groundcover native to the northern Balkins. Grows to about 8 inches tall by 36 inches wide with heart-shaped, downy leaves and ...Read More
Plant grows well in Temecula, CA. We do get some frost but doesn't hurt the plant. Great ground cover ~ one that is easily pulled out i...Read More
Have planted this in both mottled shade and full shade, with equally satisfying results. As a groundcover, the vibrant green offers vivid...Read More
Exuberent grower, makes a wonderful groundcover in sun or dark shade, although more floriferous in sun. The flowers are very long lastin...Read More