Campanula collina
- common names: bellflower
- flowering season: spring to summer
- height: flowers reach to 12 inches, leaves are lower
- Light requirements: sun
- Soil requirements: average, well drained
- Water requirments: average
- Growth habit: low and moderately spreading
- How to propagate: dividing in early summer
- Leaf type: small oval green leaves
- Ways to use it such as in a pot or otherwise: plant where it won't be crowded by taller neighbors such as in a rock garden or flower garden
- Special characteristics: lasts well when cut for a small bouquet
This bellflower has low green leaves, and deep blue flowers on thin stems to twelve inches in mid to late spring. The richly colored flowers face outwards, are dainty and charming. It would perform nicely in a garden setting, however its size lends it to combination in a large container of other low to medium-tall flowers. USDA Zones 5 - 8. |
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