For as long as I can remember we have had balloon flowers (Campanula) gracing our front flower gardens with intense color in late summer. And for as long as I can remember those blossoms have been a deep violet color (very satisfying for a Minnesota Vikings fan living in Packers territory...)
The archived photo above shows the traditional color (with the characteristic "balloons" that precedc the opening of the blossom).
This year some of the campanula exhibited all-white blossoms, and then two plants revealed the pattern shown in the top photo. These are not new plantings; all of our flowers are descendants of their predecessors because these plants are plolific self-seeders and IMO a joy for a lazy home gardener.
So my question to the readership here - is this a surprising development, and more importantly will the seeds from the plants with variegated flowers reproduce true next year, or will they revert back to a baseline all-violet or all-white?
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