Campanula 'VIKING' bellflower
size/type
low perennial,mid-sized perennial
usual height
0,3-0,4m
usual width
0,2-0,3m
leaves
deciduous broadleaf
colour of leaves
flowers
showy
colour of flowers
blooming time
June-July
location
full to partial sun
soil type
neutral to alkaline
soil moisture requirements
evenly moist (dislikes drought)
USDA zone (lowest)
5 (down to -29°C)
winter protection
for zone 5+6
for zone 7
categorized
Bellflowers are popular perennials common both in our nature and our gardens. These maintenance-free plants are easy to grow and offer several flower colours: mostly violet and white, rarely blue, and even pink. They bloom from early summer until autumn – upon variety.
Description of the plant:
Arie Blom is a Dutch perennial breeder primarily renowned for coneflowers, but sometimes he introduces a perennial from another species. This time it is a bellflower called Viking. This beautiful cultivar is a result of multiple crosses between campanula hybrids, so no one can trace the parent species anymore. It bears large, 4-5 cm long, light purple, bell-shaped flowers which are star-shaped open wide. They are not nodding but facing outwards. They appear atop about 40 cm tall, upright stems.Flowering begins from June or July and you can prolong it by removing spent flowers. True, it is quite a lot of work, and the plant produces milk, so allergy sufferers should be careful when handling it. As soon as the bunch starts to look unsightly, cut it 3 cm above the ground and within a month it will re-emerge into a fresh new tuft with more flowers for late summer and the last nice days of autumn. Deciduous leaves are fresh green and narrowly ovate with long petioles.
Viking bellflower forms compact clumps and is sterile (it does not produce viable seeds) so it will not weed around the rest of your garden. Bellflowers like fertile, well-drained but evenly moist soil of almost any pH but prefer neutral to alkaline soils. Make sure to provide enough nutrients for profuse flowering. They can be grown in full sun (never let it dry out completely) or part shade. Hardy to min. -29 °C (USDA zone 3).
Last update 16-06-2023
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- STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
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- EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
- STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
- HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
- SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
- HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
- FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
- GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.
