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Platycodon grandiflorus Komanchi Balloon Flower Perennial Plant For Your Garden © 2007Visit Our Online Store.For Perennials and Perennial Seed |
Platycodon grandiflorus Family - Campanulaceae - Campanula Baloon Flower Platycodon grandiflorus, or Balloon Flower, is an intriguing garden perennial plant. The clear blue flowers swell to about two inches in diameter, looking like small balloons, before finally opening up to form a pretty star shaped flower. The stems can be thirty six inches or so long with flowers along most of the length. Balloonflower, like Asclepias, likes to take its time emerging from the soil in the spring. It will begin bloom in mid to late July, at least that is true here in southern Indiana, and continue until September. There can be sporadic bloom after that. Platycodon grandiflorus is hardy from USDA Zones 3 - 8, doing somewhat better in the northern portion of this range. Balloon Flower is native to eastern Asia. It likes full to part sun and isn’t too particular about soil. Balloon Flower is propagated from seed, cuttings and divisions in spring or fall. If dividing, I would prefer fall, because the plant is still visible and easy to find. In the spring, unless you mark it well, it may prove hard or impossible to find. Cutting rooted in mid summer are ready to set out by fall. Very low maintenance, Platycodon grandiflorus Komanchi has very few diseases or pests. It doesn’t require frequent division. The only complaint I have is it can get pretty tall and flop over. But this generally isn’t too much of a problem, I just try to plant is near something taller which will help hold it up. |
