Trailing Bellflower

Two things happened recently, I saw this trailing bellflower on a church wall in a village in the Surrey Hills on the way home from the South Downs and I realised just how much the trailing bellflower is self-seeding in my garden and round the corner. It seems to have taken off in my garden much more extensively in the last year or two. It's such a picturesque effect of it trailing on walls and in the garden, I thought it's finally time to take notice (which for me is taking photos and blogging about it). I used to call it campanula without knowing which one but on researching it I think it is Campanula poscharskyana, commonly called trailing bellflower.

the buds are beautiful as well

a large clump is growing by my pond in a half barrel in my garden

from the other side shows how extensive it is

and it's growing from this wall on one side

it's all along the back wall of my garden, although difficult to capture the magical effect of it with my camera

round the corner, it's outside 2 of the houses

and even in the street

I also saw it at the dump a couple days ago

looking at some other plants in my garden, somehow a delphinium has survived the slugs and is blooming, black viola in the background, just self-seeded in that pot

a week later the delphinium buds have opened, also in the background a small echium vulgare, which self-seeded, behind the black viola

and I realise there are actually 2 different delphiniums, slightly different

a bee is enjoying the echium Blue Bedder