Joan Elliot Bellflower

Description:

Striking violet-blue clusters of star-shaped bellflowers; plant in groups of 3-5 plants to help support one another as they tend to sprawl; prefers moist soil

Ornamental Features:

Joan Elliot Bellflower features showy clusters of violet flowers at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. The flowers are excellent for cutting. It's heart-shaped leaves remain dark green in colour throughout the season. The fruit is not ornamentally significant.

Landscape Attributes:

Joan Elliot Bellflower is an herbaceous perennial with an upright spreading habit of growth. Its medium texture blends into the garden, but can always be balanced by a couple of finer or coarser plants for an effective composition.

This perennial will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Joan Elliot Bellflower is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• General Garden Use
• Mass Planting
• Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens
• Container Planting

Plant Characteristics:

Joan Elliot Bellflower will grow to be about 12 inches tall at maturity extending to 20 inches tall with the flowers, with a spread of 15 inches. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 8 years.

This perennial does best in full sun to partial shade. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type, but has a definite preference for alkaline soils. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This plant can be propagated by division.

This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.