Re: Re : Campanula ID
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Re : Campanula ID
- From: B* C*
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 05:41:57 EDT
I thought those plants sounded familiar. I saw them last year, or the year
before in the Dominion Seeds catalogue (although they were being sold as
started plants, not seeds. Dominion carries a number of plants as well as
their seed and bulb lines, including some very nice plants like double
nasturtiums.
Bob Campbell
>From: "GUIRAUD Chantal" <chantal.guiraud@wanadoo.fr>
>Reply-To: perennials@mallorn.com
>To: perennials@mallorn.com
>Subject: Re : Campanula ID
>Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 11:21:45 +0200
>
>Hi, Vivien,
>I too, bought a double campanula carpatica here in France in the biggest
>wholesale market of the country next to Paris where the parisians
>flowershops come to buy their stuff.
>It's name is 'Thorpedo'. It's the same plant in size and color than the
>carpatica but with double flowers. Well, I didn't see any flowers this year
>because they are regularly eaten by the slugs.
>As we have no summer at all here in France, except for the riviera which
>is
>a small area down in the south next to Italy, and having rain everyday,
>gardeners have to constantly fight with the slug and snail families. As a
>counterpart (I try to think positive in any case) the hydrangeas are
>unbelievable, so beautiful and plenty of flowers.
>People say that the weather is awful this year because it's a 13 moons
>year.
>Old gardeners are used to plant, sow etc... in harmony with the moon
>rotations.
>I'm sorry but I sideslipped away from our previous subject !
>Happy gardening
>Chantal GUIRAUD
>ERMENONVILLE, north of PARIS, FRANCE
>Zone 7
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> >De : VBouffard@aol.com
> >À : perennials@mallorn.com
> >Objet : Campanula ID
> >Date : Lun 31 juil 2000 3:26
> >
>
> > I just returned from a vacation in British Columbia, including a
>visit
>
> >to Butchart Gardens, where I suffered serious fuchsia envy. Anyway,
>while
> >doing the family laundry at a laundromat, I wandered over to a nearby
> >drugstore that had various plants for sale outside and there saw a short
> >campanula somewhat similar to a normal C. carpatica, but with fully
>double
> >blue flowers.
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