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OSTROWSKIA OSTROWSKIA Campanulaceae (Bellflower family) |
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Photograph © Antoine Hoog
Photograph © Tanya Shulkina, Missouri Botanical Garden |
Ostrowskia magnifica Regel. If you're a bulb connoisseur, this rare, tall Campanula relative from Central Asia belongs on your wish list. It bears huge, pale blue flowers, up to 10 cm (4") across, on 50-cm (20") stems above a big, swollen root. Our plants descend from material collected by Arnis Seisums in the Hissar Range of Tajikistan. This plant needs dry Central Asian conditions to thrive, but on account of its size it is unlikely to survive in a pot smaller than 15 liters (4 gal.). Seisums grows it in an open bed, lifting it after it flowers and keeping it dry till the end of September. We grow ours in pots in a cool glasshouse. We don't lift after blooming, but we water frugally and when the leaves die down we stop watering completely till the first green tip emerges. Tuber (Fall shipping only). New, lower price. This plant is growable! $30.00 |
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