Campanula porscharskyana Adansa purpleand
Campanula porscharskyana Adansa white
From Lowe's in summer 2018
❌ All are ex-plants now. The white ones up and died over winter and were gone for spring 2019.
The blue one declined and got smaller and smaller and looked awful lying in the dirt in 2019. It lived and even put out some flowers but constantly looked like limp rags. I took it out.
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Here were my hopes:
I've never grown campanula before, but they are supposed to be easy and colorful. They need shade here.
The purple bellflower is a mounding, trailing plant that spreads out. I first put it at the back of the potting bench curve.
Later in the season I moved it to the front of the garden to spill over the edging stones. That set it back quite a bit and by September it didn't look like much. Hopes for 2019.
It's very floriferous and the deep purple will look good with the foliage colors in this garden.
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| June 14, 2019. It had been moved in 2018 but came back and flowered nicely in 2019, although misshapen a bit. and not as big. |
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| July 1, 2018 - just planted. Looked great for a week or two before losing all its blooms. |
The white version is a smaller plant, a little more compact, but with bigger individual flowers.
2019: the white bellflowers did not come back after winter. Lost all three.
I had planted one in the potting bench curve and two in the shade garden under the dining room windows, but later, in September 2018, dug them up and potted them.
All three seemed to need more water than they could get. Despite heavy drenching almost daily, when I dug them the roots were powdery dry. I don't think these compete well with tree roots, and need much wetter soil.
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| July 1, 2018, just planted. Lost all its blooms, then re-bloomed at the end of July. |
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| July 26, 2018 - bounced back after standing in water in heavy rains. So pretty. |
By September all three were declining, and seemed to be drying out despite a lot of watering. They were potted up . . . and all three immediately looked much better. The pots are kept moist and they are under the aspen trees in shade. I don't think they'll compete with tree roots in dry soil, even with frequent watering. UPDATE: 2019 -- lost all three. Did not come back from winter.
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| October 28, 2018. They are doing much better in consistently moist pots under the trees. |