The bellflower bee

I LOVE bellflowers and I really enjoy growing Campanula lactiflora ‘Prichard’s Variety’ for its rich-blue flowers. It begins to flower just after the roses and, if you cut the old flowers off, it produces another lot. It can give six weeks of flower, if deadheaded regularly, and fills the gap between the first flush of roses and the second.

‘Prichard’s Variety’ was raised by Maurice Prichard of Riverslea