The tall bellflower produces large white cup-shaped flowers on slender stems.
As they like moist, they are very happy after the long period of rainy days and they are blooming everywhere, even on the road, near the sidewalk.
Bellflowers vary in size, shape, and plant form but are usually white and various shades of blue, lavender.
The botanical name for this perennial, campanula, is from the Latin word for bell and refers to the shape of the flowers.
Bellflowers attract bees and there are many of them on the flowers.
"The garden's silence: even the single bee
Persisting in his toil, suddenly stopped,
And where he hid you only could surmise
By some campanula chalice set a-swing.
Who stammered--"Yes, I love you?"
-Robert Browning
(1812-1889)
(1812-1889)
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6 comments:
great macros maia.
Costas
They are such pretty flowers Maia!
they are lovely flowers and great photos of them. I had to dig out a load of the blue ones as they were starting to become a weed.
I've often wondered about growing these... they are really very beautiful and I love the pure white... Larry
Amzing blooms! Thanks for sharing, Paula in Idaho
awesome photos!!! very pretty indeed!
Thanks for linking in...hope to see you again next Friday!
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