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Rolly's Favorite Campion flowers

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Other Names:  Morning Campion

Description:

A lovely and interesting campion presenting deep green foliage that adds ornamental value; clusters of starry soft pink blooms, each with a white eye emerge in summer; cut back by half after the first flush of flowers to encourage repeat blooming

Ornamental Features

Rolly's Favorite Campion features dainty shell pink star-shaped flowers with white eyes at the ends of the stems from early to mid summer. Its oval leaves remain dark green in color throughout the year.

Landscape Attributes

Rolly's Favorite Campion is an herbaceous evergreen perennial with a ground-hugging habit of growth. It brings an extremely fine and delicate texture to the garden composition and should be used to full effect.

This is a relatively low maintenance plant, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard. It has no significant negative characteristics.

Rolly's Favorite Campion is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Mass Planting
• Rock/Alpine Gardens
• Border Edging
• General Garden Use
• Naturalizing And Woodland Gardens

Planting & Growing

Rolly's Favorite Campion will grow to be about 14 inches tall at maturity, with a spread of 12 inches. When grown in masses or used as a bedding plant, individual plants should be spaced approximately 10 inches apart. Its foliage tends to remain dense right to the ground, not requiring facer plants in front. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 5 years. As an evegreen perennial, this plant will typically keep its form and foliage year-round.

This plant does best in full sun to partial shade. It is very adaptable to both dry and moist growing conditions, but will not tolerate any standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is somewhat tolerant of urban pollution. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid. It can be propagated by division; however, as a cultivated variety, be aware that it may be subject to certain restrictions or prohibitions on propagation.