Campanula lactiflora (milky bellflower)
 
Hardy Perennial 
Family: Campanulaceae
 
Light Preference: Full sun - light shade
Moisture Preference:  Moist well drained soils - avoid spots with wet winters. 
Height: 1.2 m 
Growth Habit: slowly spreading clump, tall stemmed voluminous flower clusters
Flowering Season: late spring - summer
Planting Use: Cottage garden (use in back of borders), cut flowers, bees and pollinators
 
Description:  Leafy, fully deciduous herbaceous perennial that forms clumps of lush green foliage with tall stemmed branching and voluminous flower clusters in luminescent lavender/lilac blue.  Likes full sun to light shade and good drainage is essential.  The tall flower stems benefit from support as rain can make them heavy.
 
Notes on Cutting: Cut when a few blooms on a stem are open and other blooms are swollen and showing colour, as buds will continue open in the vase.  Campanula need to be cut in the coolest parts of the day and these milky sapped stems do better when seared in boiling water for 10-20 seconds. Beautiful luminous and voluminous flower clouds in the vase.
 
Supplied in 1L recycled plastic pots