Comments on: Campanula ‘Summertime Blues’ a Tall Bellflower

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:01:30 +0000

Copperbeech, I deadhead mine, and they rebloom, but I haven’t yet tried leaving one to see if it makes a difference in the number of flowers or length of bloom time.

By: copperbeech

copperbeech — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 11:55:25 +0000

So I did plant a Summertime Blues about a month back. Is it necessary to deadhead the flowers to promote the growth of more bells?

By: copperbeech

copperbeech — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:38:01 +0000

I still have yet to plant my ‘Summertim Blues’ nor my Campanula ‘Viking Bellflower’ as I am still debating where to put each of them in our garden(s). I am still mulling over their height statistics and more importantly the suitable sun requirements.

Of course you can’t argue with your success ‘Northern Shade’ i.e. your Summertime Blues is flourishing in shade conditions…right? But I can’t find any web reference that doesn’t list “full sun” for each of these Campanulas. My corner garden is definitely *not* full sun as it is mostly dappled with maybe with 2 hours of direct west sun.

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:51:17 +0000

Copperbeech, last year my ‘Summertime Blues’ grew to 27 in tall. I think the plants were a bit spindly, as they didn’t get particularly thick foliage, but they still got generous blooms hanging down. Mine are in part shade, getting maybe 2 to 3 hours of sun, and then some dappled light for the day. They flowered well last year, with a strong initial flush of blooms, and then they flowered intermittently until frost, in waves. There would be dozens of flowers when in bloom. They are back, but not yet flowering this year. Most of my other Campanula are just opening over the last week, so I expect to see the pretty steely blue flowers soon.

By: copperbeech

copperbeech — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:52:58 +0000

After much searching in my area and beyond I *just* obtained a “Summertime Blues” (and a Campanula “Viking”). I am in Zone 5b in Ontario and am hoping that one or both of these Campanulas can tolerate (much) less than full sun. The tag for “Summertime” seems to contradict what I had read online in that the tag indicates full sun :( and full to partial sun for the “Viking”. It seems reversed from what I have seen on the web.

So I am hoping I can benefit from your experience as many of the posts are over a year old. Most importantly is how much shade can Summertime tolerate and bring forth flowers?

As well the one I picked up today from the nursery is tall and spindly and taller than I was expecting it to be when even at full height i.e the tag says 15″ but it is right now it is 25″!

I’d love to hear your thoughts.

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 13:50:54 +0000

# 10, I bought mine locally in Edmonton, so I’m not sure of other sources. ‘Summertime Blues’ did survive a cold winter, and they are growing well now.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:50:42 +0000

I have tried to find this flower this spring in my area (Toronto Ontario) but w/o success. By chance is there anyone in my neck of the woods who knows where I might look?

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:58:09 +0000

The Garden Ms. S, I’m surprised that they keep their flowers off of the ground, since there are so many of them on each stem. It’s nice that they aren’t just at the top of the plants too. There are a lot of bellflowers blooming now that July is here.

By: The Garden Ms. S

The Garden Ms. S — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 04:00:58 +0000

There is something very charming about nodding bell-shaped flowers. I think they add a woodland touch to any garden.

To have ones that are such profilic bloomers must be a treat!

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:37:21 +0000

Beth, the C. glomerata look nice when they are in flower, but I find them much shorter blooming than all of the other Campanula. If I cut off the top flower after it’s done blooming, some of them will get some more flowers at the leaf axils, but its not impressive. Then, their foliage tends to deteriorate after blooming, and they are not attractive. They also spread too much. I would be careful about removing all spent flowers to keep them from seeding. I’ve removed most of the glomerata I inherited, and have just kept one small group, because the dark purple looks so nice with the pink peony and the yellow iris. The glomerata are my least favourite of the bellflowers, and I wouldn’t plant them in a new garden.