Campanula

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I love them. They look great on peoples walls and in their rockeries.

But mine is dying. Im not sure if ive planted it wrongly. Its just a pile of stones with some compost in it. But its wilting. Ive moved it from the soil and planted it between the rocks.

Any advice?

Mine is in soil and doing (too) fine.

'A pile of stones with some compost in it' doesn't sound great to me tbh, does anything else grow happily in it?

Its a corner in the garden, quarter of a curcle, with compost. I built it! Ive only got campanula in it. I see it growing in walls with no soil. So does it need it?

It grows in every damn corner of my garden, and it is the bane of my life! Bloody stuff. Once it gets hold it is ineradicable!

I've not tried in walls or in among rocks but there's some advice here which seems good:

http://www.griffinsgardencentre.ie/gardening/blog/gardening/campanula-that-purple-flower-that-grows-so-well-in-walls-borders-etc

It may be that you need to get small plants going in pots and then plant them in your rockery in the autumn, as described in that. I'm also wondering if compost between rocks doesn't have enough 'body' and dries too quickly - maybe a mix of soil and compost (perhaps a 'John Innes' mix which includes soil) might be better (I could be completely wrong about that).

It also occurs to me that if this rockery is brand new and very rocky, the compost/soil may at this stage be being washed down into the gaps. It might take a while for it to settle down perhaps? IME it's worth spending time getting the groundwork right (we didn't do enough of that when we moved here and it was a mistake.)

A close up picture or two might help.

Rockery is 4 yrs old. Its just I haven’t come round to do much😂

Ill get photos!

As requested

It looks OK to me! Maybe a bit rain beaten.

Really? Its just not as bouncy and full as it was in the pot. Ill persevere then.

Maybe a bit of feed?

Yes, that looks fine to me too. The photos are much better than I was imagining from your description!

Some small ferns would look good in some of the lower crevices.

I just see lots of nice full bouncy campanulas and I want that!

I’ll definitely get more to fill in. Lots to do round the garden

I see this growing everywhere too but when we try to plant it in our garden it never dies as well. It seems to prefer tight stony places. We filled our window boxes with it a year or so ago thinking it would never need to be replaced. Even with constant care it didnt really take well.

The only places in our garden it does OK is in pots that look much too small for the size of plant.

Our neighbour has it cascading down her wall from self seeded plants growing in tiny cracks. Contrary stuff.

Campanula is actually the genus name - there's lots of different species, including Canterbury Bells, harebell. The usual one that you see scrambling over wall is Campanula poscharskyana, which has rather more open flowers. Yours has nice bell shaped flowers. Could it be Campanula carpatica? I'm not sure what conditions it wants. It may want to stay as a nice clump, and not to cascade.

One thing all Campanulas seem to have in common is that slugs love them.

Slugs are welcome to mine! Bloody nightmare!