Re: Invasive Campanulas

In a message dated 6/4/2005 10:25:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
4042N15@nationalhearing.com writes:

Is your  Campanula 'Joan Elliot' related to C. punctata 'Cherry Bells'?   That
one is campaigning for use of the name "Mile a Minute".  We only  carried it
one year in our nursery and then got rid of it - so we  thought.  It's still
popping up a bit.  This year we are trying  one called C. 'Elizabeth'.  I
don't believe it is a punctata, or even  a cross including punctata, but it
does have similar flowers.  We  shall see.


Sounds more like Cherry Bells to me too. It has taken over about half of  one 
of my daffodil beds, although the daffodils don't seem to mind it. It is  
just now starting to bloom--I'd be a lot more tolerant if it were just a little  
prettier.  As for 'Joan Elliott'--this campanula has never been invasive  for 
me. In fact, just the opposite--I haven't been able to keep it, and not just  
because the groundhogs keep eating it--my groundhogs seem partial to 
campanulas,  although not Cherry Bells. And it's a pretty blue one, not like the pale 
pink of  Cherry Bells.
 
Two other invasives I'm dealing with are a variegated mint and a perennial  
some call "perennial ageratum"--Eupatorium coelestinum. The Eupatorium does 
look  just like a tall blue ageratum. It increases by rhizomes that look very 
much  like those of the mint. It must increase by seed as well, because here it 
has  jumped beds across a couple feet of lawn. Of the two, the mint is the 
easier one  to get rid of. I don't know where the mint came from, it just suddenly 
showed up  in a bed one day. The Eupatorium was my own mistake.
Bill Lee
Z5a Cincinnati

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