HI I'd like to trade. I'll send you an email. :-) Pam

Kate, your post didn't list the number of feet. Thansk for the input, everyone. Maybe I will leave it where it is this year to see what it does first. Assuming it is not too hard to move when it is 2 years old. When I googled it I saw a picture in someoneÂs garden where they had harnessed it into being tall and thin with double plant rings. ThatÂs something that could work too in that place in my garden. ItÂs more the spread IÂm concerned about, as my garden is an island bed and there is no more horizontal space. I planted it as a backdrop for some wine-colored daylilies, but whether it will bloom at the same time I have no clue.

Yes pink flowers would be fabulous! I love pink. But I like the hazy clouds of white flowers too. Campanula, this is definitely a weedy species, and makes abundant seedlings. Although the Chocolate plants bloom a bit later than the plain green species, I think the two are cross-pollinating some in the back yard. The offspring of the Chocolate plants (those seedlings showing up closer to the mother plants) all show some purple color, but usually not as much as the cultivar itself. Farther back, the green species seedlings are spreading like crazy. They are very drought and shade tolerant - also critter proof as nothing eats them. I've got them mixed with other fairly aggressive eastern US woodland natives like Helianthus divaricatus and Aster cordifolius and sorta let them have a free for all.

Uh...make that E. purpureum. Still find it mildly surprising that the kind growing in my meadow stays so short. Purpureum is, if anything, typically even taller than other types. But mine stays right about 3-4 feet. BTW, and yes, this is a bit OT, but I do sense that there really is something wrong with pollinating insects across the country, and perhaps on a worldwide basis. This very same meadow of which I speak was, just a few years ago, full of bees and butterflies this time of year. Not saying they're all gone, but something's going on. Not nearly as much activity. The very air itself used to be alive back there this time of year. On sat. I noticed only some type of black bee or pollinating fly on the blooms, albeit these were numerous, whatever they are. +oM