Southcentral Alaska gardens are obtaining a sluggish summer season – besides for the weeds

Is it just in our lawn or probably just me? Appears like issues are rising slower, the hen populations are way down — witnessed quite a few geese this 12 months? — and there are considerably also several bugs other than mild hits of mosquitoes. I really don’t know. It just looks like a slow-relocating summertime.

Be that as it may perhaps, 1 plant is not escalating slowly but surely. When I get a few email messages asking the similar query, all in 1 working day, I know I far better enable the entire world in on the solution, as it should be a widespread challenge. I know extra than a person gardener is suffering by way of an invasion of Campanula rapunculoides, aka purple bell flowers, the subject matter of these several inquires. It is having more than a lot more people’s flower beds than just ours.

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