Beautiful bellflowers!
By: Garden Gate staff
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Bellflower adds a variety of shapes and colors!
Want out-of-the-ordinary blooms that aren’t bothered by insects, disease or deer? Try bellflower! It has several charming bloom shapes, so you can choose the perfect form for any full sun to part shade spot.
Keep clicking to find out more about peachleaf bellflower, in particular, and its upward-facing blooms.
Bellflower
Campanula spp. and hybrids
Type Perennial or biennial
Blooms Shades of blue, purple, white and pink from late spring to summer
Light Full sun to part shade
Soil Well-drained
Size 10 to 36 in. tall, 12 to 30 in. wide
Cold-hardy USDA zones 3 to 9
Heat-tolerant AHS zones 9 to 1
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Bellflower fits your garden’s style
‘Grandiflora Alba’ peachleaf bellflower’s darker green foliage and white blooms have a crisp, clean, almost formal feel. But bellflower stems lean a little, so they fit in with a casual cottage style garden, too.
Clump together 3 to 5 ‘Grandiflora Alba’ plants to add impact right away — peachleaf bellflower doesn’t spread like some of its relatives.
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Get great cut flowers
Peachleaf bellflower keeps blooming for up to a month with deadheading. And it makes a great cut flower, though plants aren’t quite as vigorous as other bellflowers — it seems to be especially susceptible to root rot — you can help them live longer by providing excellent soil drainage.
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Wow with double flowers
For very full double blooms, try ‘La Bello’. It adds twice the flower power at the front to middle of the border.
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