Campanula 2012

[Tim Ingram]

Campanulas are such stalwarts of the summer alpine garden so here are a few to start off with; a lot more to come. There is fascinating background information on these in Graham Nicholls superb book on Dwarf Campanulas.

Campanula garganica 'Dickson's Gold' - a really appealing combination of golden foliage and starry blue flowers, which originally occurred in a batch of seedlings in 1974 grown by Stan Dickson from Newcastle.

Campanula 'Timsbury Perfection' - a very lovely seedling raised from a form of C. rotundifolia by Graham and named for where he lives. My picture nowhere does it justice and perhaps it would like less sparse conditions than the sand bed. I particularly like the very delicate foliage and habit.

Campanula 'Covadonga' - one of the darkest flowered of all originating from the Covadonga mountains of Northern Spain. Although introduced 70 or 80 years ago by Clarence Elliott this has apparently been rarely grown in recent times, and it really is very strikng. My plant came from Blackthorn.

[David Nicholson]

Lovely Tim. Whenever I try dwarf Campanulas in the garden all the slugs in the neighbourhood queue up for seconds.

[ruweiss]

Campanula seraglio raised from seed collected at Mt. Sarigol /Northeastern Turkey.
Campanula choruhensis, also from Northeastern Turkey.
Campanula fragilis hairy form from the Italian Abruzzi Mts.

[Hoy]

Campanula is an attractive genus!

C. barbata is native to Norway although not at our cabin. However, I introduced some seedlings several years ago and now they have seeded around and increasing the population. It is very welcome indeed.

      

[Paul T]

Some beauties in here.  That plant of fragilis from the Abruzzi mountains if gorgeous.  I love the dark flowered one too.  Beautiful.

[ruweiss]

Paul, you are right, thank you for your friendly comment. Flowering of these plants is always a highlight for me. It is a pity, that the different forms of Camp. fragilis don't do it with me in the open garden.
Tried it several times, but longer periods of rain always killed them.
Maybe some kind of overhead protection could solve the problem.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Paul, you are right, thank you for your friendly comment. Flowering of these plants is always a highlight for me. It is a pity, that the different forms of Camp. fragilis don't do it with me in the open garden.
Tried it several times, but longer periods of rain always killed them.
Maybe some kind of overhead protection could solve the problem.

I agree Rudi , he is not easy to please in our conditions . It's the same here in Flanders .
I had a good plant in my crevice this spring but after this (very)wet summer this plant looks very bad ...
But it is a very lovely Campanula ... so we keep trying ...