Campanula seed Bell flower

LATIN NAME: Campanula medium

COMMON NAME: Canterbury Bells

The bellflower opens its wide, open, cup-shaped, blue bells on the tall stems, and the softly hairy leaves fill the base of the plant. The upright, clump-forming, biennial plant carries the oval, softly hairy, pale-green leaves and the wide, open, cup-shaped, blue, violet-blue or white, bell flowers on the tall, branching stems through the early summer, one of the fine, bold sights of the border, drawing the bees. The plant is a fine, historic presence of the old cottage garden, and it is a plant of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, well-drained ground.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The bellflower is a historic subject of the plant science, and the open bells keep showing up in the work on the upright biennials. The way the wide, open, cup-shaped, blue bells form along the tall, branching stems has been examined closely, and it keeps appearing in the studies of the upright biennials, the old-garden flowers and the members of the bellflower family. The softly hairy leaves and the clump-forming habit have also made it a fine study plant, and the bellflower is a regular subject of the work on the open bells of the early world.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

The bellflower is a fine, bold plant of the border and the old cottage garden. The wide, open, cup-shaped, blue, violet-blue or white, bell flowers open on the tall, branching stems through the early summer, one of the fine, bold sights of the border, drawing the bees, and the stems come to the vases as the fine, generous cut flowers of the early season. It is one of the fine choices for the border, the cut-flower patch and the study collection, and it has been written up in the horticultural and the botanical papers for the open bells and the old-fashioned ways. It is a fine, bold plant of the open, sunny to lightly shaded, deep, well-drained garden.

Give the young plants the deep, well-drained bed, and the open bells will rise in the second season.

To grow the bellflower from seed, sow the small, dark seeds just below the surface of the pot of fine, gritty soil, keep the pot in a bright, open spot and water gently, then set the young plants out in the open ground. The seedlings push through within a couple of weeks and grow on steadily. With the sun or the light shade and the deep, well-drained ground, the open bells will rise through the early summer.

Uses: flower beds, potted plant, cut flower
Annual herb, 20-70 cm in height, flower solitary, erect, cup, blue-violet. Hi ray, hi sandy. Likes the cold and dry climate, cold, avoid heat. Suitable for early spring planting, color bright and elegant, is the common herb garden flowers.