{"id":3754,"date":"2024-02-01T01:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T01:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2024-02-02T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T09:39:36","slug":"campanula-for-the-rockery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/campanula-for-the-rockery\/","title":{"rendered":"Campanula Family for the Rockery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the smaller varieties of Campanula should ring a bell for rockery or alpine gardeners. Canterbury Bells have been grown in the UK since the middle ages. The bell shape is created by a cup shaped flower with the edges divided in strips usually creating 5 petals<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/campanula-for-the-rockery\/attachment\/canterbury-bell-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3756\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3756\" title=\"canterbury-bell-2\" src=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/canterbury-bell-2.jpg\" alt=\"canterbury-bell-2\" width=\"336\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/canterbury-bell-2.jpg 336w, https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/canterbury-bell-2-256x300.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bell flowers of Campanula come in many sizes upto 15 foot tall in the case of Campanula pyramidalis grown as a pot plant. The smaller low growing plants are more suitable for the Rockery or Alpine garden. The above example is growing in the space at the top of a low retaining wall and has been there very happily for at least 20 years. These varieties love good drainage.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Campanula Facts and Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The smallest Campanulas hug the ground and throw up flower stalks only a couple of inches. Campanula censia, C. excisa, C. pulla and C. Pusilla fit this category.<\/li>\n<li>Campanula gargancia despite its name and C. rupestris have clusters of tiny star flowers that hug the ground.<\/li>\n<li>All the miniature kinds of Campanula are at home in cool, semi-shaded nooks in the lower levels of the rockery.<\/li>\n<li>Still diminutive in stature Campanula allioni or C. carpathica have larger saucer shaped flowers upto one foot tall.<\/li>\n<li>Camapanula rotundifolia has blue, white or double forms.<\/li>\n<li>Tufted and prostrate forms dived with ease in September. Those with errect stems need to be grown from cuttings.<\/li>\n<li>Campanula barbata is biennial but the low growing C. aucheri is perennial and both have a long tap root that protects them from bad weather conditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881928100\/richardpettin-21\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.amazon.com\/images\/P\/0881928100.01.MZZZZZZZ.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;More than 200 Campanula species and hybrids are described, and specialists and collectors will delight in the descriptions of rare and little-documented plants&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\" http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0881928100\/richardpettin-21\">Dwarf Campanula by Graham Nichols\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Look out for seed of your chosen varieties at\u00a0 special shows or from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpinegardensociety.net\/\">Alpine society<\/a> membership scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Read Growing Campanula and<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/bells-and-not-cockleshells\/\"> cockleshells<\/a> on<a href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/growing-campanula-canterbury-bells-or-bellflower\/\"> Gardening Tips<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the smaller varieties of Campanula should ring a bell for rockery or alpine gardeners. Canterbury Bells have been grown in the UK since the middle ages. The bell shape is created by a cup shaped flower with the edges divided in strips usually creating 5 petals The bell flowers of Campanula come in many sizes upto 15 foot tall in the case of Campanula pyramidalis grown as a pot plant. The smaller low growing plants are more suitable&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/campanula-for-the-rockery\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21369,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions\/21369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}