Campanula Adansa Purple

Campanula  ADANSA Purple, also known as the Wall Bellflower, is a vigorous species with a creeping habit, ideal for beautifying rockeries and walls, in full sun or light shade. It forms a prostrate clump from which long stems emerge in spring and early summer, bearing numerous small lavender-blue star-shaped flowers with white centres. It is a charming, floriferous ground cover that also looks wonderful in a pot. This variety has a rather wild character with long tendrils that readily escape from the main clump.

Campanula ADANSA Purple belongs to the Campanulaceae family, it is a cultivar derived from Campanula porscharskyana, native to the mountains of the Balkans (Croatia). In the wild, this species is found in rock crevices and high mountain scree. This perennial forms a cushion measuring 25 cm (10in) high, with a minimum spread of 40 cm (16in). It spreads through stems that root on contact with the ground, allowing it to occupy a large area. Flowering begins in late spring and continues throughout summer, more pronounced in cool climates. The flowers have delicate petals, measure 2 to 2.5 cm (1in) in diameter and are carried in loose panicles along the hairy stems. The foliage is semi-evergreen to evergreen depending on the climate, light green and vibrant, composed of small hairy, long-stalked, heart-shaped leaves.

Campanula Adansa Purple is primarily a rockery plant. It quickly fills the crevices in paving and walls. It also suits a wild garden perfectly and can be admired in pots, in a light and well-drained substrate or in hanging baskets where it cascades down in small bright curtains.