Campanula incurva

Annie - Sigh no more, fair maid! It's definitely worth waiting for -
don't give up hope. A low growing sprawler, absolutely smothered with
hundreds of big-for-the-size-of-the-plant, chubby, palest blue bells.
It needs, BTW, a sunny well-drained spot: it's not one of those
campanulas which likes shade and moisture. It looks absolutely
splendid here grown at the top of a low retaining drystone wall in
combination with Geranium traversii elegans: the two have knitted
together perfectly and the matching but different foliage and flowers
are a real eye-catcher for a good month or more (late June to late
July). I thought I had an image of it but I seem somehow to have wiped
it. I'll have a look tomorrow and see if there are enough flowers left
(it's really going over now) to at least get a close-up of one
specimen. If I can, I'll send, to give you heart! And to give you more
heart, it took three years here from seed to flower (though I did
waste one year by putting it in altogether the wrong position, not
having read with due care and attention the small print in the great
Clifford Crooks' monograph on campanulas).

Cheers
Tim
Tim Longville
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