Comments on: Campanula ‘Summertime Blues’ a Tall Bellflower

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 19:31:01 +0000

#21, it’s a good idea, and I will have to look into the options.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 14:16:25 +0000

Northern Shade wrote:

“Unfortunately, you can’t attach photos to the comments”.

That is too bad as such an option would make your superb site even better.

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 13:42:41 +0000

#19, I really like Campanula ‘Summertime Blues’, too. The large bells, in such a pretty shade of blue, are attention grabbing. I combined them with some pink carnations, and the two looked good together. There is a link to the page showing the combination in my previous comment. However the bellflower bloomed for much longer, in waves all summer and into fall. I was thinking of adding some cottage pinks there, which flower for longer than the carnations, to give a similar effect as the carnations.

Unfortunately, you can’t attach photos to the comments.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:57:31 +0000

My “Summertime Blues” have survived its first winter! I introduced many new plants into my garden last year and this was my favourite.

(It it possible for me to post pictures to our posts?)

By: Northern Shade

Northern Shade — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:46:34 +0000

Copperbeech, it's too bad that they don't have any 'Summertime Blues' left for you. I don't see very many of these plants for sale around here either. Here's a post I just wrote with pictures showing 'Summertime Blues' combined with pink carnations.

By: copperbeech

copperbeech — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 17:25:20 +0000

I didn’t deadhead mine and I can report back that the plant rebloomed beautifully. I like it very much and has flourished in my garden. Today I called the garden centre hoping to pick up another of these Summertime Blues but alas none left.

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.