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Posted by
papillon1 (
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Tue, Jul 15, 14 at 13:05
| Does it help to deadhead the flowers on the campanula balloon flowers? Does it promote more blooms? If it is allowed to set seed does it self seed? |
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RE: Balloon flowers
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| It will continue to bloom deadheaded or not. It self seeds prolifically. |
RE: Balloon flowers
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| Thanks pitimpinai I think I will stop deadheading & let it make seed. I just love them & would like to have lots more. |
RE: Balloon flowers
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| Once they finish blooming, the seedpods will resemble really tiny tulips. Each pod contains lots of seeds & plants are easily grown from seed. According to my notes, the seeds don't need cold stratification in order to germinate. My plants do self-seed but not to the extent I find them annoying. I let my many balloon flowers form seedpods every year just because I can't be bothered removing them. Just an FYI - balloon flower is Platycodon, not campanula. Please don't be annoyed or frightened: I have a spreadsheet of all my perennials & shrubs. |
RE: Balloon flowers
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| True, but not so wrong. Balloon flower was once called the "great-flowered bellflower"; binomial, Campanula grandiflora). It was split from the Genus campanula later in the 18th century, but being closely related, is still in the Family Campanulaceae. |
RE: Balloon flowers
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| SunnyBorders - how cool is that?! I didn't know they were once categorized in the Genus campanula. Day's not wasted--I learned something new, botanically speaking. |
RE: Balloon flowers
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| You sound like me Gardenweed; always something new to learn re the garden. Example: what you said above about balloon flowers reseeding. I must have planted several dozen balloon flowers over recent years and have never once seen them reseed. Then again, if I have anything to do with their subsequent maintenance, I always deadhead balloon flowers in the interests of neatness! |
RE: Balloon flowers
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| I am just chiming in to say that my 'Sentimental Blue' (Platycodon) has never reseeded. I sure wish it did! |
RE: Balloon flowers
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- Posted by amna 6 (MA) (My Page) on
Fri, Jul 18, 14 at 15:28
| Mine did self seed but that may be because I never deadheaded or used mulch around the plants. They seeded " nicely", not like my hairs which was a beast set on engulfing my entire yard! |
RE: Balloon flowers
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| A master gardener told me that the old varieties reseed and the new hybrid varieties don't which finally explained why hers reseeded all over the place and mine do not. And, I have found "store bought" seed very hard to germinate. |
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