Campanula 2016

[Tristan_He]

Campanula pyramidalis var. alba. This is a beautiful plant but unfortunately it is monocarpic, and the only two plants I managed to raise from seed flowered in different years.

I'll get some more seed and try again as I suspect that this is the sort of plant that will happily self seed if I can get it going, especially in our light soil.



This Adenophora came from trillium.no. It keys out as A. potaninii. A nice plant if a bit sprawling in the garden.



Sheepsbit scabious, Jasione montana (thanks for the seed Ian MacD). I have several smaller seedlings that will probably flower next year.

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Some foliage shots of different Campanula and related. These can look very tatty and chewed at this time of year but it is amazing how established plants recover.



Phyteuma spicatum. After flowering the slugs completely chew them to the ground and they look dead. About now they form winter rosettes that seem pretty resistant.



Campanula garganica stays more or less continuously green.



Not so Campanula x pulloides 'G.F. Wilson' which looks completely stone dead. It looked like this last year though before regrowing abundantly from the base in spring (see up thread).



Campanula chamissonis scarcely looks much better. It is quite overshaded by this seedling Aquilegia too. I'm taking cuttings as the bellflower will transplant.



Campanula cochlearifolia is in rude health, on the other hand, though the sections that have flowered have been a bit chewed. This is an enthusiastic spreader and you can see the lusher, greener bits at the edge of the patch.

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Finally a couple of rosettes of some monocarpics. This is Campanula barbata.



And these are interesting looking. I collected some seed of these and am wondering if they might be C. thyrsoides. Any views?