Re: Campanula ID

Hi, Vivien.  I have been lusting after Campanula cochleariifolia
'Elizabeth
Oliver' since seeing it on Terra Nova's web site, but haven't found it
yet.
Maybe this is the one?  Here is the picture and description at TN's
site:
http://www.terranovanurseries.com/pages/plantsB1.html#campanulaEO

VBouffard@aol.com wrote:

>      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.  The label said only "campanula," and when I checked with a
> nearby nursery, I was told that they had gotten their plants "at auction" on
> the mainland and that they had been unlabeled. The nursery was referring to
> them as "Double Blue Clips."
>      I have started various of the shorter campanulas from seed, but
> unfortunately have gotten them mixed up in my head and am not sure which is
> which, but I certainly recognized the leaf on my mystery plant as a toothed,
> ovate campanula leaf.  Has anyone seen this plant??  Any of you nursery
> people?  I was pretty sure I could not legally bring one back across the
> border with me, so I didn't buy it and it's killing me.  Imagine finding a
> totally unknown (to me) plant and in front of a drugstore, yet!
>
> Thanks,
> Vivien B.
> Mass.
>
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