Campanula lactiflora 'Madiwiho' BORDER BLUES^®

Campanula lactiflora 'Madiwiho' BORDER BLUES®
milky bellflower

SIZE/TYPE	mid-sized perennial
USUAL HEIGHT	0.8-1m
USUAL WIDTH	0.3-0.4m
LEAVES	deciduous broadleaf
COLOUR OF LEAVES	light green
FLOWERS	showy
COLOUR OF FLOWERS	violet
BLOOMING TIME	June - October
LOCATION	full to partial sun
SOIL TYPE	any (acidic to alkaline)
SOIL MOISTURE REQUIREMENTS	evenly moist but well-drained
USDA zone (lowest)	4 (down to -34°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Perennials Summer blooms

Bellflowers are popular perennials common both in our nature and our gardens. These maintenance-free plants are easy to grow and offer several flower colours: mostly violet and white, rarely blue, and even pink. They bloom from early summer until autumn – upon variety. Milky bellflower is a medium tall species from Turkey and Caucasus.

BORDER BLUES^® is a modern variety of milky bellflower with bright violet blue flowers with almost white throats. They are shortly funnel-shaped, open wide into a star shape, and appear atop about 80-90 cm tall, light green stems. The main flowering season begins in June, lasts for about a month, and if you cut the plant back afterwards it will produce a new mound of fresh and healthy foliage and short stems with flowers that will keep on blooming until the last sunny and warm days of early autumn.

Leaves are light green, narrowly ovate with gently serrated margins and conspicuous veins. Stems and leaves contain white sap which could cause discomfort if you are allergic. BORDER BLUES^® bellflower makes dense tufts with many-branched stems.

Milky bellflower likes fertile, well-drained but evenly moist soil of almost any pH. They can be grown in full sun (never let it dry out completely) or very light shade. Thanks to its size it works best at the back of a perennial border or used solitarily mixed with other short growing perennials or small shrubs. Hardy to abt. -40 °C (USDA zone 3), and suitable for large outdoor pots.

Last update 04-10-2021

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STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
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EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
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SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.