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Author Message   Periwinkle  My Weather Posted on Saturday, March 08, 2003 - 08:35 pm EST :    Here in the "frozen tundra", I'm daring to think about spring and imminent gardening. In my backyard perennial bed I have several campanulas and love them. But Campanula Poscharskyana becomes quite floppy. Staking is what I've done in the past but I don't like doing that. Any suggestions on a companion plant to help hold it up? The bed gets partial sun. Thanks. Denise (Zone 3b, 4) periwinkle No. Wisconsin z3b   Gaillardia  My Weather Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 04:13 pm EST :    Denise-- Are you sure it's poscharyskana? (what a spelling nightmare!) I always thought that one was more like a ground cover. I had a similar problem with C. perscifolia (peach-leafed bellflower). Such a beautiful plant and nice cut flowers but oh how it flopped!!! I tried everything including cutting it back drastically to force it to produce stubbier flower stems!! and staking was a disaster. I am trying to think of sturdy (and hardy) plants to put it with--perhaps echinacea (may be too late blooming tho), phlox, or planted at the base of a climbing rose bush? Gaillardia Idaho 2-3   Wanda  My Weather Posted on Thursday, March 13, 2003 - 08:53 pm EST :    C. poscharyskana is more or less a ground cover campanula and that's what it does. There are ones that grow more upright, but this one is more of a mounding spreader. wanda CA Zone 9b   Periwinkle  My Weather My Time Posted on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 07:46 pm EST :    Hi Gaillardia & Wanda: Thanks for your replies. Well, yes, I'd say it is a ground cover type plant. And I'd say it mounds and then flops. Oh well, the flowers are pretty. LOL Denise periwinkle No. Wisconsin z3b   Wanda  My Weather Posted on Friday, March 14, 2003 - 09:13 pm EST :    Periwinkle, the flowers are floppy, they are meant to lay on the ground (or mound), however.........if you plant it next to an upright structure like a fence or brick wall, you can sort of make it climb. More upright campanulas include takesmania, perscifolia, rotundifolia, pyramidalis, latifolia, primulifolia, and that's all I can thing of off the top of my head. wanda CA Zone 9b

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