Easy to grow, old-fashioned balloon flower brings showy blooms to the mid-to-late summer garden
Named for the playful, inflated flower buds and flowers, balloon flower has bluish purple or pure-white bell-shaped flower that grow amidst cool blue-green leaves.
They are a wonderful addition to any garden - showing their pretty flowers starting this time of year and extending until frost.
These wonderful perennials do well in Colorado gardens (hardy in Zone 3), and can be grown in rock gardens, containers, landscape beds, or borders.
Also called Bellflower, they like full sun (6 hours a day but afternoon shade is appreciated), and typically grow to 8-12 inches in high-altitude gardens. Birds, butterflies, and insect pollinators like them.
Here's a good article on balloon flower/bellflower, with details on how to plant and grow this wonderful perennial.
They are a wonderful addition to any garden - showing their pretty flowers starting this time of year and extending until frost.
These wonderful perennials do well in Colorado gardens (hardy in Zone 3), and can be grown in rock gardens, containers, landscape beds, or borders.
Also called Bellflower, they like full sun (6 hours a day but afternoon shade is appreciated), and typically grow to 8-12 inches in high-altitude gardens. Birds, butterflies, and insect pollinators like them.
Here's a good article on balloon flower/bellflower, with details on how to plant and grow this wonderful perennial.