General Culture:

Easily grown in average, medium, well-drained soils in full sun to part shade. Prefers part afternoon shade in hot summer climates. Intolerant of the extreme heat of the deep South. Needs regular moisture. Remove spent flowers to encourage additional bloom. Cut back flowering stems to basal rosettes when stem leaves begin to fade. In optimum growing conditions, ‘Kelly’s Gold’ will slowly spread in the garden by underground rhizomes. Divide clumps every 3-4 years.

Noteworthy Characteristics:

‘Kelly’s Gold’ is a golden-leaved version of peach-leaved bellflower. This is a rosette-forming, upright perennial that typically grows on stiff stems to 24” tall. Features large, outward facing, bell-shaped flowers (to 1.5” long) that are white tinged with blue at the edges. Flowers appear in slender terminal and axillary racemes atop erect, unbranched, leafy stems in late spring to early summer, sometimes with a respectable rebloom at the end of the summer. Stems rise from basal rosettes of narrow, toothed, glossy, bright golden leaves (4-8” long). Rosettes are evergreen in warm winter climates. Golden stem leaves are much shorter (to 4” long).