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Campanula persicifolia |
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| Common name |
peach-leaf bellflower |
| Family |
campanulaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
blue, white (June) |
| Size |
2' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
From seed  |
germinate at room temperature, do not exclude light
detailed seed-starting info below
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| Seed ripens | mid-August |
Upright plantstalks covered in large bellflowers in late spring. The common and botanical names derived from the long narrow leaves. We've had the normal blue variety for many years now - they self-seed, sometimes enough to give quite a show in early June. More recently, I traded for seed of 'Alba', and got to see the results this year. No surprises, really - just a bright white equivalent.
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We left this plant behind in our Pennsylvania garden (and wish it well); we don't grow it in Houston. About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| beth | Sep 02, 2008 | how do you find the seeds on these, i have some but can't find the seeds, are they hard to find? because I'm not finding any at all.
It should not be difficult to find the seeds - there are dried pods along the flowerstalk. Just snipping a stalk and holding it upside down should unleash hundreds of seeds. After a while the pods develop holes and seeds drop by themselves - maybe you waited too long? |
| Joan Barber russbarber@shaw.ca | Jul 03, 2010 | Beautiful blue long lasting flowers. I live on Vancouver Island and would like to know if I can transplant roots in July.
With proper care, and provided you take enough soil along with the roots, I'd say yes. But if I had any choice, I'd wait till fall. |
| Andrea Lee-Burnet | Jun 04, 2012 | I have bought a house with a lovely mature perennial garden Just now the peach leaf bellflower is opening It is lovely I will divide in the fall as it is a huge plant, unfortunately neglected as the designer of garden became too old to tend BUT I WILL |
| Blake | Jun 24, 2012 | had so much difficulty germinating these! I tried in paper towel + baggy. It's been about 3 months for the first batch, 2 months for the second and nothing has germinated. The seeds are so miniscule it's hard to believe anything could come out of them.
I put a third batch scattered over a pot of soil and maybe 5 of 25 sprouted the tiniest, tiniest of leaves, beginning 2 weeks later. The first 3 withered and died, and the other two are still tiny. Seeing as it's June, I have no hope for seeing them bloom this year. I doubt they'll even survive.
The seeds for this species are not microscopic, and should germinate without too much trouble. I suspect that your batch is actually (mostly) chaff. |
- Seed for 'Alba' from '04 trade. Baggy 70F with light (34+%G, 6-11d)
- Seed for regular blue variety from '07 garden. Baggy 70F with light (~25%G, 9-15d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F with light (16%G, 12-26d). Seedlings were weak, probably due to the age of the seed
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