Campanula ID please

I have had this for 3 years and love it. It has long,whippy stems that laugh at hurricanes.
I want to split it later this year. When and how please?

 

Looks like Campanula persicifolia.

I would think there was no problem in splitting it in the autumn. I split mine, along with a lot of other things, last autumn. Normally you just dig it up and then divide it into decent sized chunks with a spade. However C. persicifolia is pretty delicate and would probably tease apart.

If I want to be on the safe side, I put a spade through a plant where it is in the ground, and then just lift one side. This leaves the other side relatively unaffected.

Strictly, its probably better to divide it in the spring when it is just starting into growth. That way any damage caused is soon repaired. But many plants are tough enough to be divided in the autumn.

 

My Campanulas (3 different kinds but have about 7 chunks around the garden) hasn't grown that well this year, with all the rain it looks a bit flat.

 

Thank you very much Peter,
Jenny

 

Thanks Jenny.

Kyle - its been a lousey year for me too. I suspect that a lot of the plants actually like the rain - but its been so cold. I have noticed that, for instance, my Sidalcea flowers for a very short period of time when its hot, but loves the cool damp weather when it looks superb.

But the rain does batter things down.

 

Just being a bit picky, it is not C. persicifolia, the leaves are too narrow for that and the flowers arranged differently on C. persicifolia. Having said that propagation is as said.
A close up of the leaves and flowers would help with an id though.

 

Hi Palustris - no not picky - we need to get things right. So I would be interested to know what it is. I thought it did look a bit delicate for persicifolia but thats such a common one and out now that I didn't think any further.

 

Doesn`t it just Peter.

Lost a cracking Delphinium last week due to it getting top-heavy and breaking right off at ground level.

 

I was thinking cochleariifolia, 'Fairy Thimbles' last night

 

I will take a close up piccie in the morning

 

The flowers do not look bell shaped enough for C. cochlearifolia to me at least.

 

Why don't I do a bit of research before I pester all of you? I think it's a form of Harebell CAMPANULA rotundifolia. Found it in my Wild Flowers book by Marilyn Jones.
Close ups as promised. From the tip of the flower to the base of the stem is about 43cms.

 

Beat me to it, I would have said the same thing.

 

Several sp of campanula are rather similar.
I discounted Campanula rotundifolia.... harebell in your first pic, as too many flowers seemed to be upward facing.
Normally they are demour and hang downwards.
But maybe it is.
We really need to see pics of the leaves as well as the flowers to be sure.

Quote wiki..."Basal leaves are rounded to heart-shaped, usually slightly toothed, with prominent hydathodes, and often wither early. Leaves on flowering stems are long and thin and the upper ones are unstemmed."

 

We really need to see pics of the leaves as well as the flowers to be sure.
Not a good picture but have just cut one young stem ( 23 cms),still in bud and two tiny basal leaves - hard to find under all that base growth. Hope it helps.