Campanula persicifolia Chettle CharmPeach-leaved bellflower
科:桔梗科
Family:Campanulaceae
属:风铃草属
common name:Peach-leaved bellflower
introduce:Plant Type: Herbaceous perennial
Family: Campanulaceae
Missouri Native: No
Native Range: None
Height: 1.5 to 3 feet
Spread: 1 to 1.5 feet
Bloom Time: June - August
Bloom Color: Creamy white edged with lavender
Sun: Full sun to part shade
Water: Medium moisture
Maintenance: Low
General Culture:
Easily grown in average, medium wet, well-drained soil in full sun to part shade. Prefers part shade in warmer climates. Intolerant of extreme summer heat of the deep South. Needs regular moisture. Divide clumps in fall every 3-4 years. Remove spent flowers to encourage continued bloom. Under optimum growing conditions, plants will spread both by self-seeding and by underground runners (rhizomes), but not to the point of being invasive.
Noteworthy Characteristics:
This peach-leaved bellflower cultivar is a rosette-forming, upright perennial which grows on stiff stems to 1.5-3 tall. Features large, outward-facing, bell-to-cup-shaped flowers (to 1.5" long) which are creamy white edged with lavender blue. Flowers appear in slender terminal and axillary racemes atop erect, unbranched, leafy stems in late spring, with a respectable rebloom to the end of summer. Stems rise from basal rosettes of narrow, toothed, glossy, bright green leaves (4-8" long). Stem leaves are much shorter (to 4" long). Chettle Charm is synonymous with and sometimes sold as George Chiswell.
No serious insect or disease problems. Slugs and snails are occasional visitors.
Uses:
This cultivar provides color and contrast to the perennial border or rock garden. Also effective in a lightly shaded woodland settings where if can be left alone to naturalize. Mass or plant in large groups for best effect.
