Campanula

Name: Campanula Spp. (Campanulaceae)

Campanula is a varied genus of annual, biennial and perennial plants. Most have bell or turbular flowers with 5 petals.

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Canterbury Bells
Campanula poscharskyana

  See also:  Ornamentals

Canterbury Bells 

Name: Campanula medium
Common Name: Canterbury Bells.


Lavender

Canterbury Bells is a biennial campanula that grows a low rosette of leaves in the first year, and then produces tall spikes of large bell shapped flowers in late spring / early summer of the following year. The flowers are usually purple, lavender, pink or white and very rarely, double.


Lavender & Purple

Purple

Purple

Purple

White

Pink

Full Sun Part shade Moderate water Hardy Biennial

Campanula poscharskyana 

Name: Campanula poscharskyana


Flower

Campanula poscharskyana is a perennial ground cover that produces masses of purple flowers in the Spring. The leaves grow from a creeping rhizome and only to around 10 cm tall. The flowers are produced on short terminal spikes, borned above the leaves.


Flower

Flower

Full Sun Part shade Drought resistant Hardy Perennial