Platycodon – Balloon Flower – Chinese Bellflower –<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is a sole species of a semi tuberous perennial in this genus.\u00a0 They occur from grassy slopes and mountain meadows in Eastern Asia.\u00a0 It emerges late and forms a neat clump of hairless stems with simple, elliptic to lance shaped, toothed, light bluish green leaves.\u00a0 It is grown mainly for its clusters of bell shaped, 5 petalled, white, mid blue, dark blue, or lilac purple 2″ wide flowers, which open from large, balloon like buds.\u00a0 Suitable for a rock garden or the front of a herbaceous border.\u00a0 It is also good for cutting.\u00a0 Established plants resent disturbance.<\/p>\n

Grow these easily grown plants in deep, light, fertile, loamy, reliably moist, but well drained soil in full sun or partial shade.\u00a0 Stems require support.\u00a0 Divide in early spring.<\/p>\n

Prone to leaf spot, blight, snails and slugs.<\/em><\/p>\n

P. <\/strong>grandiflorus<\/strong> subsp. mariesii<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>– This compact, clump forming perennial from Russia, Northern China, Korea, and Japan grows 12-18″ tall and 12″ wide. It produces elliptical, serrated, bluish green leaves, to 2″ long, borne in whorls on lower stem, and held alternately higher up the stem. In late summer, cluster of large balloon like buds open to shallow, bell shaped, 5 petaled, blue flowers, to 2″ across, with darker blue veins and pointed tips to the petals.\u00a0 Plants with pinkish mauve and variegated flowers sometimes occur from seed.<\/p>\n

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Platycodon – Balloon Flower – Chinese Bellflower – There is a sole species of a semi tuberous perennial in this genus.\u00a0 They occur from grassy slopes and mountain meadows in Eastern Asia.\u00a0 It emerges late and forms a neat clump of hairless stems with simple, elliptic to lance shaped, toothed, light bluish green leaves.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[21,59,41,22,31,20],"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-160261748"},"_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\/9720"}],"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=9720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"common-name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directory.plantdistributors.com\/plant-distributors-new-york\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/common-name?post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}