Campanula alliariifolia
(Ivory Bells)
Family - Campanulaceae
Category - Perennial
Origin - Caucasus, Turkey
Season of Interest - Spring, Summer, Autumn
Hardiness - H7
Height - 60cm
Width - 45cm
Location - The Cool Garden
Description: A herbaceous Perennial with a clump-forming and upright habit. Grey-green to dark green leaves are heart-shaped at the base of the plant with fewer, rounded leaves with finely toothed margins on the flowering stems. Pretty, nodding bell-shaped flowers are creamy white with reddish-green calyces. The Blooms are held in long, upright Racemes and are produced from midsummer into early autumn. Attractive to pollinating insects.
Additional common name - Cornish Bellflower
Flower:
Many nodding, bell-shaped flowers are creamy white with dark reddish-green calyces. The blooms are held in long racemes on upright stems and are produced from July into September.
Flower colour: White
Flower shape: Bell-shaped flowers in racemes
Flowering time: July, August, September
Foliage:
Grey-green to dark green leaves are Cordate at the base of the plant with fewer, rounded leaves on the upright flowering stems. The leaves have serrate margins and are covered in white hairs on the undersides.
Foliage Senescence: Deciduous
Foliage Shape: Cordate to rounded with serrate margins
Propagation:
Division, seed.
Cultivation:
Best in full sun to partial shade in fertile, moisture-retentive soil that is well-drained.