Attributes • Rock Garden • Good Cut Flowers

Bloom Color • Blue

Exposure • Sun • Part sun

Season of Interest (Flowering) • Summer

Water Requirements • Prefers well-drained soil

Platycodon grandiflorus 'Sentimental Blue'

Balloon Flower

Highly ornamental buds resembling small balloons open to gorgeous blue, star-shaped flowers. Removing faded flowers will encourage new blooms. Low, mounded plants are ideal for rock gardens or a colorful display at garden's edge.

Platycodon (plat-ee-koh'-don)

Family: Campanulaceae · Common Name: Balloon Flower

These easy-to-grow plants have unique, balloon-like, puffy flower buds that open into bell-like flowers in July and August. Prefers well-drained soil. Remove faded flowers to encourage new blooms. Plants are slow to emerge in spring.