A genus of more then 40 species of perennials that dies back at the end of the growing season, then over winter by underground rootstocks grows then continues top growth in the next growing season. \u00a0Native eastern Asia but 2 occur in the wild in Europe. \u00a0One is grown in Japan for its edible roots.<\/p>\n
The leaves, stem from the base of the plant and die back before the plant flowers. \u00a0Some species the leaves may be alternate. \u00a0The leaves are either small lance to rounded to egg shape and may have toothed edges or arranged in 3 from a single stem. \u00a0The \u00bc-3\/4\u201d long bell or funnel shape flowers are pendent or semi-pendent held in racemes or panicles.<\/p>\n
They like light humus rich moist but well drained soil in full sun or partial shade. \u00a0Grow as a border or an open woodland setting, the smaller ones are well suited for rock gardens.<\/p>\n
Prone to Vine weevils<\/i><\/em>\u00a0may attack roots and\u00a0slugs and snails <\/i><\/em>may eat young growth.<\/p>\n Adenophora bulleyana<\/b><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Native to Western China this perennial can grow 4\u2019 feet tall and only 12\u201d wide. \u00a0It has an erect growth habit, with clustered toothed stems bearing rather lance shape 3\u201d long leaves. \u00a0Flowers on the top of spikes in groups of 3, the \u00bd\u201d long violet-blue bell shape flowers with arching\/bent petals opening in late summer.<\/p>\n Zones 5-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Adenophora \u2013 A genus of more then 40 species of perennials that dies back at the end of the growing season, then over winter by underground rootstocks grows then continues top growth in the next growing season. \u00a0Native eastern Asia but 2 occur in the wild in Europe. \u00a0One is grown in Japan for its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,59,41,31,20],"product_tag":[],"common-name":[],"toolset-meta":{"plant-product-fields":{"is-featured-product":{"type":"checkbox","raw":""},"zone":{"type":"checkboxes","raw":"","checked":[],"formatted":""},"scientific-name":{"type":"textfield","raw":""}},"toolset-woocommerce-fields":{"_download_limit":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_virtual":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_downloadable":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_download_expiry":{"type":"numeric","raw":"-1"},"_download_type":{"type":"radio","raw":""},"_regular_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_sale_price_dates_from":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sale_price_dates_to":{"type":"date","raw":"","formatted":null},"_sku":{"type":"textfield","raw":"PDE-160252398"},"_manage_stock":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_stock_status":{"type":"radio","raw":"instock"},"_stock":{"type":"numeric","raw":null},"_backorders":{"type":"radio","raw":"no"},"_sold_individually":{"type":"checkbox","raw":"no"},"_width":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_weight":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_length":{"type":"numeric","raw":""},"_purchase_note":{"type":"textarea","raw":""}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3893"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=3893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}