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Trailing Bellflower

Campanula poscharskyana

Also called Serbian Bellflower

Trailing Bellflower
Photo: Kurt Stüber [1], CC BY-SA 3.0

Campanula poscharskyana is a semi-evergreen trailing perennial with lavender-blue star-shaped flowers, native to the Dinaric Alps. It is a tough rockery and wall plant that grows fast and tolerates some drought once established.

Family
Campanulaceae (Campanul family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Full sun, Part shade
Water
Water regularly while establishing, then allow the soil to dry somewhat between waterings; it tolerates dry spells once established.
Soil
Well-drained soil or gritty mix; grows well in wall crevices and rockeries.
Temperature
Winter hardy; survives best at 5–10 °C in winter and tolerates colder and warmer conditions.
How easy
Easy
Native range
Croatia to Montenegro
Climate
temperate

About

Campanula poscharskyana, the Serbian bellflower or trailing bellflower, is a semi-evergreen trailing perennial, valued for its lavender-blue star-shaped flowers. It is native to the Dinaric Alps in former Yugoslavia.

How to grow it

This tough rockery plant bears sprays of violet starry flowers in spring and summer. Vigorous and fast growing, it is able to stand drying out once established in a wall. It will self-seed into cracks in walls and paving.

During winter, it survives best at 5–10 °C (41–50 °F), but can tolerate both colder and warmer temperatures. Although it is considered winter hardy, many growers bring it indoors and keep it in slightly moist soil on a windowsill, or in the basement under a lamp.

Other Campanula plants

Campanula betulifolia · Tussock bellflower · Fairy's Thimble · Adriatic bellflower · Campanula gelida · Dane's blood · Falling Stars · Milky Bellflower · Adria Bellflower · Solitary Harebell · Chimney Bellflower · Rainer's Bellflower

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Campanula poscharskyana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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