C rapunculoides is truly garden cancer. I am making headway eradicating it. The tops snap off easily, and if you keep pulling them, the plant gets weaker. Then, 2 4-D (Weed B-Gone) does work on them. Try to get them just as they poke up early in the season. Or, with care, you can bend the stems down that come up in other perennials and spray just those parts of the plant. (Use big pieces of cardboard to mask your desirable plants.) Never let them go to seed. Avoid roto-tilling them up, because you only get more of them. Sad, though. They are pretty. But in some ways almost all the Campanula are seedy and invasive. I have C. latifolia everywhere. It's a 5-foot tall one that is quite showy for a short time, but then becomes a brown ugly thing. Its seeds go everywhere too. But at least it does not have runners. C trachelium I also have, and it was pesty for a while too, but no runners.

HDD. The January CR is only on line,no hard copy in the mail as yet. Click on the 'Order Form',and go to the Terms and Conditions of Sale,and you will find the wording to be different from the previous form in June. The $4 box fee is still there,but the "minimum combined shipping and handling charge is $15 on plant orders" line has been omitted. So,if I'm interpreting it correctly,that $15 charge is gone,and only $4 is now charged for boxing. To me,this was a good decision,as there were times I wanted to order 1 plant,but personally,felt having to fork over $15 on top of the plant cost,was excessive,when the actual shipping cost was well below the extra $11. ($15-$4 box).So I would'nt order at all,or just add on that one plant to some future order when more plants were on the order. I think they hiked the plant prices enough now,to make up for that,and thats ok with me,because its my decision now,if I want the plant,and think its worth it. At least I'm paying for the plant now,instead of 'handling'. Maybe much to do about nothing,but thats just me.;-) Bob

Campanula glomerata has very fleet feet! Give it an inch and be prepared to suffer the consequences. Now, that said, I think it is a wonderfully useful plant... but you have to site it appropriately. Give it a place you need "filled in" and make sure it can't infiltrate more sedate plantings. This is a wonderful plant!!! in flower it is truly magnificent; it's foliage is nice and it makes no demands. GOOD FILLER. But don't put it in a more defined, constrained setting because it's too rank and "contained" isn't the character that best suits this plant, or will agree with the gardener (trust me on this). Looks great with Hostas and Hemerocallis in a more remote, "wild" setting. Treat it the same way you might treat Monarda. "Mass" it. I am only now beginning to understand the "peach leaved" variety. Which grow like gang-busters in my garden, too! It is more controllable, though. Totally cool plant, THUSFAR (lol). When the most elderly cat and her now deceased brother were on the wane, voles ate the Campnula carpatica. Its loss saddened me, but I've not replaced it; in spite of 3 "new" rodent control units (nearly 3 yrs. old now). Perhaps I ought to reconsider...

I, like you Campanula, very much like those Umbellifers. (I was so impressed with an Angelica "Giga" which I had planted a few years back.) After trying for a couple of years in succession planting these biennial Angelicas with nothing to show for it in succeeding seasons I had reluctantly given up on them. But lo and behold I think I have found a couple of Angelicas in our garden this spring. I am confident this is the foliage of a "Giga": I am a less sure that this is our long lost Angelica sylvestris "Vicar's Mead".