There is a Campanula lactiflora (milky bellflower) and a Campanula latifolia (large bellflower), but there isn’t a C. latifloria. These plants have all the characteristics of Campanula lactiflora. When I purchased them, they were identified as a ‘Prichard’s Variety’. However, sometimes plants do get mislabelled, and there is a chance they are another variety of milky bellflower, but they appear to be ‘Prichard’s Variety’. Pictures I’ve seen of ‘Prichard’s Variety appear a bit variable in colour.

One thing I’ve noticed about observing and photographing blue and purple flowers, is that they can appear quite different shades in different light conditions. All of the blue and purple flowers in this garden section, including these flowers, the Geraniums that these are planted with, the Campanula ‘Summertime Blues’, the Phlox paniculata ‘David’s Lavender’, the Pulmonaria and others, will vary in their colour, depending on the position of the sun, low on the horizon or high in the sky, as well as whether it is overcast. Sometimes they appear more purple than blue, or lighter or darker shades at different times of the day. Also, they can appear to be different colours when the flowers first come out, compared to their aged colour. This might be affected by the amount of time they are exposed to the sun, too.

I’ll take a close look at them, when they are in flower again this summer.

They get a bit of tree leaf cover over the winter for protection, from what falls on them in Autumn, but otherwise they are toughing it out on their own. Last fall I planted a few hundred crocus bulbs in between the Rozanne plants, and I hoped that the root disturbance wouldn’t set them back. However, they came up larger than the previous year, and the crocus plants made a nice early flowering patch, before the geraniums were up. Then as the geraniums grew, they hid the crocus foliage.