Campanula - Seeds

This Bellflower Mix brings together different varieties of Campanula muralis. These are very low-growing and creeping perennials with evergreen foliage that offer small bell-shaped flowers in various shades of white, blue, mauve, and violet depending on the plants. Hardy and undemanding, these plants grow in even the smallest patch of soil and bloom in the sun from June to August. Sow in spring, in light and damp soil.

The rockery bellflowers belong to the Asteraceae family. This is a selection of cultivars derived from Campanula portenschlagiana (syn. muralis), a perennial herbaceous plant native to the mountains of Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. It forms a low clump with weak stems, 15 cm (6in) tall and 30 cm (12in) wide, bearing persistent, rounded leaves, dark green with a greyish underside. They bloom from June to August and often rebloom in mid-autumn in damp and mild regions. Its flowers, tubular or funnel-shaped, composed of a narrow tube of about 4 cm (2in), opening into 5 distinct and spread-apart petals, are referred to as campanulate. Their colour ranges from pure white to lavender blue, through mauve and vivid or deep violet. This flowering is nectar-rich and attractive to pollinators.

Very hardy and very easy to grow, bellflowers grows wherever the soil is damp but well-drained, which is why it is quite common to find it growing at the base of a wall in a crack. Easy to grow, it can be planted as a border plant, in the joints of paving, or at the base of a small bush or even in containers. Sowing in spring will give plants that are sufficiently hardened to survive the winter and bloom the following spring.