Product Description
Create your very own historically-inspired garden with this packet of Canterbury Bell Flower Seeds. Canterbury Bells are biennial, blooming most prolifically in the second year and rarely blooming in the first year. The plants need full sun, good moisture and will do well with a generous amendment of bone meal to the soil around them.
Planting Instructions
FULL SUN – Seeds can be sown in late summer, fall or spring after all danger of frost has passed. If planting in spring, keep the soil slightly moist until germination which takes 10-14 days. Add a generous amount of bone meal to plants for best results. When seedlings are 2 inches high, thin, leaving 12 inches between plants.
Features
- 200 mg Seed Packet
- Biennial Plant, Campanula medium
- Plant 12 inches apart at 1/2 inch depth
- 10-14 Days to Germination
- 180 Days to Blossom
- Made in the USA
Inspiration
Eighteenth-century Williamsburg was the home of many ardent gardeners and plant collectors who often exchanged seeds with fellow enthusiasts in Great Britain. Gardeners obtained their seeds from store merchants or from traveling seedsmen. Today, the Colonial Williamsburg seed program continues the tradition by offering many varieties grown in the 18th century.
Native to southern Europe, this plant is a member of one of the largest plant families on earth – the Campanula family which takes its name from the Latin Campanula, meaning “tower of bells”. The plant has been a part of European and English gardens since the 1500s and a part of American gardens since the 1700s. Most common blossoms are usually rich, deep purple, but can also be white, red or pink.
