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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: ChrisB on July 26, 2019, 09:41:43 AM

Title: Two campanulas and a gentian
Post by: ChrisB on July 26, 2019, 09:41:43 AM

I’ve grown the first campanula from seed and got the second from a friend. Labels lost ... can you help?  The gentian I’m really not sure how I got, but it does this every year end of July ...

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Title: Re: Two campanulas and a gentian
Post by: Maggi Young on July 26, 2019, 12:29:44 PM

I think the  second  campanula, the  little  double, is  C. cohlearifolia 'Elizabeth Oliver'
The  gentian is  probably a  form of  G. septemfida  :-\

Title: Re: Two campanulas and a gentian
Post by: ChrisB on July 26, 2019, 12:52:21 PM

Thanks Maggi, I’m even wondering if that first one could be an adenophora?

Title: Re: Two campanulas and a gentian
Post by: shelagh on July 26, 2019, 01:37:38 PM

Yes I thought Elizabeth Oliver. Its lovely and it spreads gently.

Title: Re: Two campanulas and a gentian
Post by: ChrisB on July 26, 2019, 01:54:15 PM

It’s just scrambling around in the gravel, lovely little thing, always forget it’s there til it flowers ..

Title: Re: Two campanulas and a gentian
Post by: DaveM on July 26, 2019, 04:51:38 PM

Your first looks like Campanula tommassiniana.
The plant I've had for some years is not yet in flower but here's an image from 2016.

Title: Re: Two campanulas and a gentian
Post by: ChrisB on July 26, 2019, 06:56:50 PM

Hi Dave,
Bingo, yes that’s what it is. Grew it from seed and now you said the name I remember.  All my queries sorted in just a few hours. What. Marvellous facility we have here!