Cantebury Bells

[erdine]

dark blue ones

[erdine]

mauve

[erdine]

pink

[Comtessa]

Beautiful!

Do slugs eat them?

[Ginny42]

oh, they're so pretty!!! What is the yellow bloom next to the mauve bells? That's pretty unique looking too. ;) :D

[MrSeedy]

I must start adding some Canterbury Bells erdine, since your's are so beautiful. I have the "Lady Bells" which are sort of pretty , but extremely invasive, (Adenaphora), but are the Canterbury Bells as invasive. I love the old fashioned Cup and Saucer Bells, I think biennials, but haven't tried growing those .

[erdine]

Ginny, I'm not sure what that plant is or where it came from. It must have come in with something I got from another garden. it's quite unique, I'll take a better pic of it, and maybe someone will know it's name.
MrSeedy, I can send you some seeds if you wish. I also have white ones. they self seed quite freely, but I don't mind, they fill in so many spaces.
Comtessa, we dont'have a deer problem here, thank goodness. some places do,but we haven't so far. touch wood.

[pup25]

Those flowers are beautiful...

Might have to add them to my garden! ;)

[mla2ofus]

Beautiful flowers. The yellow flower< I thinK> is a phlomis. Yes I just googled it. It said it also self seeds.

Quote :A little-known genus of 100 species native to Europe and Asia. One, P. russeliana, caught our fancy with its rings (or more correctly, whorls) of hooded, butter yellow flowers borne at intervals around the erect, 36-48in stems. The clusters of blooms begin opening in June and continue to open as the stems elongate -- that is, all summer long. Beautiful in the border with the blues of Perovskia and Nepeta. The woolly, heart-shaped leaves shade the ground below them so thoroughly that a mass of plants can also serve as an effective, undemanding, and distinctive ground cover. Plants require full sun and well-drained soil; lean, sandy soil is ideal. They are evergreen in mild-winter climates, herbaceous in colder zones. Leave the stems standing for an interesting addition to the winter landscape. Bareroot.

[Momofjs3]

Very beautiful!! I loved them and googled...found some hardy to my area, as I was tipped off by MrS that they might be! Thanks for sharing! :wub:

[Sneezie]

:blink: Oh Erdine they are so pretty. Are they hard to grow? Love the pink ones. :blink:

[boo]

Erdine, they are gorgeous. Save me some seeds please! :mellow:

Now, Cantebury Bells must be something different than Cup & saucers because I grew cup & saucers this year. They don't look like that. :( I think they got nabbed by the late frost & then the drought that we are having didn't help either.

[Audwoman]

Erdine those are really pretty. I see your Lilies are ready to explode. :D

[grindle]

Love them Erdine, I only have the white ones, but the colours are so much prettier :D :D

[DandyLioness]

erdine! Those are smashing! I love the colours that you have!!

boo - when I saw them, I thought of "cup and saucer" as well.

[donna]

I recently found out(thankyou) that it takes 2 years for them to flower this means that I am going to have pink,white and blue ones for spring I'm not a patient gardener and probably wouldn't have put them in if i'd nown,but good things come to those who wait.