Other Years

2011
June 1: Up nicely but showing signs of chlorosis. I gave it some iron fertilizer.
September 27 :Gone. I don't intend to have any next year.
 
2010
December 31: Alive but not outstanding.
 
2009
May 24: Some plants sparsely in their bed.
July 4: Coming along.
September 29: Not much of a show this year.
 
2008
May 24: Growing well but not filling the bed.
August 13: I have allowed them to go to seed. There are only about 3 clustered bellflower plants, and there were some non-clustered bellflowers plants, so I am letting mine go to seed in the hope that the seed will reproduce as the clustered kind.
 
2007
May 1: A few plants have appeared in their bed.
June 16: One is in flower.
 
2006
May 13: Only a few plants at one edge.
June 3: First flower.
August 1: There is only one small clump. It produced a few flowers.
 
2005
May 9:  Growth is patchy.
June 19:  A few flowers.
July 27:  There is much grass in the bed. There are also campanula of the tall bluebell form there. I don't know if they are a different species or a form that the clustered variety reverts to.
September 9:  I pulled up all green leaves and sprayed the weeds that remained, mostly quackgrass, with Round Up.

Clustered Bellflower, 2003

2004
July 4:  Flowering nicely, but a little sparse in the centre of its bed.   I pulled up several stalks which were of the bluebell form, single flowers along the stalk.
 
2003
March 28:  I sprayed glyophosate on the quack grass in their bed.   There is no sign of the bellflowers yet.
April 13:  New growth is just appearing.
June 16:  After a poor start in which it was sprouting only in part of its bed, it has largely filled its bed and today produced its first flower.
July 5:  The flowers have largely changed into ugly seed stalks, which you can not clip off as the seeds are interspersed with the leaves.   Thin stalks of another sort are coming up in the bed, with single blue flowers along them.   I don't know if this a later development of the clustered bellflower or another species that is also in the bed.
 
2002
April 15: New growth.
September 7:  A normal year.
 
2001
May 1: It is poking through.
June 16: First flowers.
December 2: A good show this year.
 
2000
April 6: Young leaves!
June 24: A few flowers. The plant is not very abundant yet in its new location.
August 7: It seems to be doing well, with small plants covering most of its bed.
 
1999
March 22: The melting of the snow has revealed many young leaves!
May 24: Growing well.
June 16: First flower.
June 30: A mass of beautiful purple!
July 12: Little colour left.
August 3: A few small blossoms still.
31: Still there.
September 4: I moved 5 clumps into their new spot in the north perennial bed.
30: A good show this summer.
 
1998
April 14: Shoots have been visible for weeks now.
May 2: In leaf.
June 1: Budding.
17: Half in flower.
 
1997
May 5: Growing well. I moved some a little, as it seems to spread so slowly on its own.
June 25: First flowers.
August 7: It put on a great display.
 
1996
May 4: Sprouting.
July 1: Just came into flower.
 
1995
May 9: Doing fine.
July 7: Has been in flower for about 2 weeks.
 
1994
May 10: Visible today.
June 21: The purple-flowered plants from Ivy Bowman are just in flower.
July 24: Identified as campanula.