Hairbell

Hairbell (Campanula) - The alpine kinds are charming for rock gardens, and not as a rule difficult to cultivate. A group of kinds somewhat larger than the high alpines adorn rocks and old walls on the mountains, and may be used for these in our gardens. Some are pretty window plants. Numbers are good border and edging plants of easy culture; the tall and straggling kinds admirable for the wild garden, or rough woody places or hedgerows, but these tall species must not be used much in the flower garden or mixed borders, as their time of bloom is short. Some of the annual kinds, if well grown, are showy. The Canterbury Bell is one of the finest of biennials, the tall chimney Campanula a very handsome and precious plant for garden or greenhouse.

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Campanula Abietina

Campanula Abietina - Forms close mats of leaves 2 inches high, and gives a delightful lot of open starry reddish-purple flowers in May, on wiry stems 9 inches high. A rock garden gem.

Campanula Allioni

Campanula Allioni - An alpine kind forming a network of succulent roots, with stemless rosettes of leaves an inch long, from which arise stalkless erect flowers. It thrives in exposed positions in the rock garden in a moist, free, and sandy loam; dislikes limestone. Division. Alps

Alpine Hairbell

Alpine Hairbell (Campanula Alpina) - Covered with stiff down, giving it a slightly grey appearance, 5 to 10 inches high; flowers of dark fine blue, scattered along the stems, margins of mixed border, and the rock garden. Division or seeds. Carpathians.

Acutangula

Acutangula (Campanula Arvatica) - A pretty Spanish kind affording a profusion of starry deep violet flowers in July and August. A good moraine plant 4 inches high.

Tufted Hairbell

Tufted Hairbell (Wahlenbergia) - A charming group of alpine plants allied to the Hairbells, and mostly inhabiting the mountains of Dalmatia and Asia Minor. They are useful, free-flowering, and hardy, forming tufts with large heads of pretty, bell-shaped, upright flowers, of various shades of purple. The chief points in their culture are full exposure, plenty of sunshine, a free gritty soil, and a raised position free from stagnant moisture. All the species are true perennials, easily cultivated, vigorous, and free-flowering. They are difficult to increase by division on account of the long roots they make, but they ripen seed freely, which if sown at once rarely fails. Syn., Edraianthus.

Carpathian Hairbell

Carpathian Hairbell (Campanula Carpatica) - A dwarf plant of free-flowering habit, the light-blue flowers large and cup-shaped, borne on footstalks 12 to 15 inches high in July and August in succession. There are pale and white forms of this plant and the hybrid forms, none of them better than the wild plant. Isabel, pelirformis, Riverslea, and White Star are some of the best of these.

Mont Cenis Hairbell

Mont Cenis Hairbell (Campanula Cenisia) - A high alpine plant growing among Saxifraga biflora on the sides of glaciers, making little show above ground but vigorous below, and compact rosettes of light green leaves, with blue flowers. It should have a sandy or gritty and moist soil on the rock garden among the smallest plants. Division.

Brittle Hairbell

Brittle Hairbell (Campanula Fragilis) - The young branches are coated with soft down; the flowering branches prostrate, 12 or 15 inches long; the flowers 1 inch or more in diameter, delicate blue. A variety C. hirsuta is covered with stiff down, and looks almost woolly. Division, cuttings, and seeds.

Gargano Hairbell

Gargano Hairbell (Campanula Garganica) - A compact plant of prostrate habit, the starry erect flowers in branching racemes, pale blue, shading off to white towards the centre in summer, thriving in a rock garden or a border. There is a white variety. C. H. Paine, a soft violet blue with white centre, is the best of all. Division or by cuttings taken in early spring.

Clustered Bellflower

Clustered Bellflower (Campanula Glomerata) - A handsome plant about 2 feet high, the stems terminated by dense clusters of pretty intense purple flowers. The variety Dahurica, with deep purple heads of flowers, is of exceptional merit.

Campanula Hendersoni

Campanula Hendersoni - Good hybrid for August and later. This forms a mound 15 inches high and through, flowering abundantly when established. Prefers a cool, rather heavy loam.

Ligurian Hairbell

Ligurian Hairbell (Campanula Isophylla) - A very pretty Italian species; the leaves are round or heart-shaped, the flowers a pale but very bright blue, and with whitish centre. A charming ornament for the rock garden, in sunny positions in welldrained, rather dry fissures, in sandy loam. The variety alba is a beautiful form with white flowers. Both are good in chinks of rock or rock walls, but rarely endure the winter if planted on level ground. Seed and cuttings.

Campanula Macrantha

Campanula Macrantha - The stems of this handsome plant rise to a height of 5 feet, terminated by clusters of large deep blue flowers almost as large as Canterbury Bells, but less contracted at the mouth of the tube. It is a free vigorous perennial, best fitted for naturalisation in woody places. Its variety C. I. macrantha is more stately, with huge violet-purple bells. C. Van Houttei is regarded by some as a variety of the above, though the evidences of hybrid origin are not wanting. It is of elegant and graceful habit, growing 3 feet high, and producing glossy pale purple bells 3 inches long in abundance. A first-rate border plant of easy cultivation. June, July. Division.

Candelabra Bellflower

Candelabra Bellflower (Campanula Macrostyla) - A singular plant, having large flowers, with blue netted veins on a white ground, which gets purple at the edges, and with a huge stigma. It is wholly distinct from any of the Campanulas in our gardens, and well deserves culture. It is readily recognised by its candelabra, habit of growth, and is a fine annual of easy culture. Asia Minor.

Canterbury Bell

Canterbury Bell (Campanula Medium) - A familiar old plant having many varieties of various colors, bearing single flowers, doubles, in which two, three, and even four bells seem to be compressed into the outer one; and duplex flowers, in which one bell grows in the other, the two combined resembling a cup standing in a saucer. There are many colors, such as white, lavender, mauve, several shades of purple, pink, rose, salmon, and blue. The habit of the plants as a rule is compact when in bloom, ranging from 18 to 24 inches in height, and forming perfect pyramids of flowers.

Wall Hairbell

Wall Hairbell (Campanula Portenschlagiana) - A dense tufted evergreen kind, with small bright green leaves, so dense as to obscure the foot-stalks, 1 inch or more in length, by which they are supported. The flowers, pale blue, appear in masses in June, and continue with some freedom for weeks. It spreads slowly by underground stems, and succeeds in crevices of the rock garden or border. Dalmatia.

Campanula Profusion

Campanula Profusion - A charming late flowering sort of hybrid origin raised by Mr E. H. Jenkins. Two varieties are in cultivation under this name, both of the same parentage, one having self-blue flowers; the other a lovely plant, sky-blue and mauve shaded. They flower in August and September. Though of easy cultivation, but having isophylla blood in them, they are seen to the best advantage when draping rock gullies in positions where the roots can penetrate into cool soil behind. Division and cuttings to any extent.

Austrian Hairbell

Austrian Hairbell (Campanula Pulla) - One of the most beautiful of the Alpine Hairbells, a native of the Austrian Alps, on high mountain pastures; in the rock garden it should have a shelf of soil in which peat and sand have been mixed. Division.

Campanula Pulloides

Campanula Pulloides - Perhaps the finest of the dwarf Campanulas, and a plant of unsurpassed beauty. Habit, close and tufted; 6 inches high; affording in June and July a wealth of glowing purple, pendent, bell-shaped flowers that impel admiration. A gem for the rock garden. Quite happy in cool loam and leaf mould. Division in spring.

Campanula Pusilla

Campanula Pusilla - Smaller than C. caespitosa, rarely exceeding 4 inches in height, the shining green leaves heart-shaped and toothed, the flowers pale blue, in racemes, in June and July. Very gritty moist loam in the rock garden is best for it. The silvery blue, Miss Willmott, is the best form. Switzerland.

Steeple Bellflower

Steeple Bellflower (Campanula Pyramidalis) - A vigorous plant, with thick and fleshy flower-stems, rising to a height of 4 to 6 feet; the flowers, close to the stem, giving the inflorescence a steeple-like form. The flowers are blue or white, coming in succession over a considerable time in July, August, and September. Though not quite a biennial, it is better in general cultivation to treat it as such, as from seedling plants, well grown on during the first year, the finest stems arise. A border flower of the highest merit in favourable soils; occasional batches of seed should be sown to keep up a supply. It is often grown in pots for the house both in England and France.

Campanula Raddeana

Campanula Raddeana - A species of distinction and merit from the Caucasus of the easiest cultivation. Height, 9 inches to 12 inches, the lax branching stems bearing a rich profusion of large pendent bells of the deepest purple. An acquisition. Quite happy in chalky loams. Division.

English Hairbell

English Hairbell (Campanula Rotundifolia) - Of this pretty wild plant we have a white variety, generally dwarfer, and there are several forms all beautiful, and of easy culture in any soil. These are all excellent border flowers, and also for the rock garden. C. R. Hostii, and its white form, are also good, and flower in July.

Campanula Stansfieldi

Campanula Stansfieldi - A hybrid of unrecorded parentage, and one of the most charming of rock garden plants. Greyish ovate, acutely pointed leaves, and horizontally disposed bells of violet-purple color on wiry stems, 6 inches high, mark it well. A good grower of easy cultivation, flowering in July, it is readily increased by division. Succeeds best perhaps in chalky loam or soil containing much mortar rubble or the like.

Campanula Turbinata

Campanula Turbinata - urban Bellflower) is a dwarf plant with greyish-green leaves, the flowers borne singly on stems about 6 inches long, deep blue, and 1 1/2 inches across; a charming plant for choice border or rock culture. Transylvania.

Campanula Waldsteiniana

Campanula Waldsteiniana - A gem-like species from Croatia, and quite unique. Hardy and deciduous, it reaches 4 to 6 inches high at its best, the stems freely furnished with glaucous ovate acutely pointed leaves, each stem terminated by a solitary salvershaped, azure-blue flower with a base of deepest violet. Happy in rich loam and old mortar rubble. Increased by careful division in spring.

Campanula G. F. Wilson

Campanula G. F. Wilson - A fine hybrid of C. pulla and C. carpatica that no collection should be without. The cupped flowers are a modification of those of the parents named, and of rich purple color. Free flowering, vigorous and hardy, it is one of the most amiable and desirable. Height, 6 inches. June, July. Division.

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Peach-leaved Bellflower

Peach-leaved Bellflower (Campanula Persicifolia) - A beautiful kind, with cupshaped flowers 2 inches across, in July and August. Besides the double blue and white forms, there is an interesting variety named coronata, in which the corolla is doubled. There are many varieties single and double, white and blue or purple among them, and worth a place—Daisy Hill moerheimi, Alba grandiflora maxima, Pallida grandiflora, and Felham Beauty, a handsome single blue, are the best. All the varieties of this group revel in a cool soil, shade, or moisture.

Rainer's Hairbell

Rainers Hairbell (Campanula Raineri) - A dwarf, sturdy plant, 3 to 6 inches high, each shoot bearing a large dark blue flower. It thrives best in sunny positions in loam freely intermingled with pieces of stone, and well watered in dry weather, and is a gem for the rock garden. Alps of N. Italy.

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