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| According to my mother, these lovely flowers are volunteers. They are located in the brick planter box outside her front door in Fort Bragg, CA. This is a coastal climate here, very cool, not often getting into the 70's (though we did just a short time ago).
The cluster of flowers is located on a single stalk, but there are a number of them in the same spot. (I find this confusing for what is supposed to be a volunteer, and I can't help wondering if she simply forgot she planted them.) It's possible that they're on runners from a single plant, but it doesn't feel like it when I reach down and finger the base of stalk. The flowers in the cluster don't all bloom at once, though many do bloom together. What I find curious is that in the same cluster, you can see in one of the photos that the center of one blossom has four curls and another has only three. I would like very much to collect seeds from this beauty, but I don't know how since I don't know the plant. I don't even know if I can. I'm worried it might be a volunteer annual and that I'll never see it again. I want very much to get more of them so tips on how I might collect the seeds would be especially welcome. I have looked around the neighborhood and I haven't seen anyone else that has them, and even googling for purple flowers I could only find one other photo that might be the same thing but it wasn't identified. I really love the color on these, but now that I think of it, I didn't try smelling them up close. I have a lame sense of smell but I didn't notice any scent to them while just looking at them. The flowers are now starting to wilt since after I took these photos a little while back. Anyone have any idea what they are or how I might collect the seeds?
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| It's Campanula glomerata. |
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| To collect seeds, just leave one (or even just part) of the flower clusters on until seeds ripen. In my own garden, I try to cut flower clusters off before that happens, as this perennial is a rampant self-seeder. |
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| Wow - talk about a fast response! Thank you! And I have to laugh now because I was worried about it maybe disappearing. From what I'm reading now, it's the sort of plant that is hard to get rid of. People either love it for the flowers, or hate it because they can't control it. In a container only for this fellow then. Thanks again! =D |
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