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Author Topic: Royal purple - Campanula saxifraga  (Read 2221 times)
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Lori S.
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« on: March 05, 2010, 12:42:39 AM »
I love the colour of Campanula saxifraga!  I'm really looking forward to seeing how these young plants "bulk up" in their third year!

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Lori
Calgary, Alberta, Canada - Zone 3
-30 C to +30 C (rarely!); elevation ~1130m; annual precipitation ~40 cm
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« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2010, 12:55:55 AM »
Another with rich purple colour... Campanula collina.

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« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2010, 09:20:12 AM »
Lori, I am always looking for blue flowers to plant in my gardens (Yellow is the commonest color here). Bluebells are among the best I can grow and now you have opened my eyes to two more species I have to search for!
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Rogaland, Norway - with cool, often rainy summers  (29C max) and mild, often rainy winters (180 cm/year)!
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« Reply #3 on: March 17, 2010, 09:25:44 AM »
We have C. saxifraga in the BG, but nothing as blue as yours!  That is stunning.  We don't have collina.  Our deepest blue is the so-called C. tatrae...may be just a variety of rotundifolia but still, very deep compared to our other rotundifolia.

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« Reply #4 on: March 17, 2010, 11:54:35 PM »
Yes, I've seen colour variations to both C. saxifraga and C. collina.  The C. saxifraga, grown a couple of years ago from seedex seed, compare favourably in colour to the gorgeous ones shown in Holubec's Caucasus book (which, BTW, is being advertised at a terrific price on the main forum site)! 
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« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2010, 10:37:54 AM »
Great plants, Lori!

I also bought The Caucusus and its Flowers.  I've hardly had chance to look at it, but even if it were only a picture book (not), the price is fantastic!
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