Phacelia campanularia, also known as Desert Canterbury Bells or California Desert Bells, delivers some of the most vivid gentian-blue flowers a spring garden can offer. Its 1.25" upward-facing bells appear in a bubbling caboodle of brilliant blue atop branching red stems, creating an eye-catching display that feels almost unreal.

This beloved California native annual forms low blue-green clumps with a tidy 14" x 14" silhouette, making it ideal for the front of sunny beds, native wildflower gardens, dry borders, containers, and pollinator plantings. Bumblebees adore the blooms, and the intense blue pairs beautifully with California poppies, tidy tips, sunflakes, clarkias, lupines, and native grasses.

Plant Phacelia campanularia in full sun with excellent drainage. It is happiest in lean, well-drained soil and may self-sow where conditions suit it. Compact, bright, and wonderfully bee-friendly, Desert Canterbury Bells is a small plant with spectacular spring color. Explore more native annual treasures in our California Native Annuals collection.

We guarantee that the plants we sell are healthy and viable at the time they leave our care.

If a plant arrives in substandard condition, please take clear photographs and contact us within 48 hours of delivery. To ensure eligibility under this guarantee, we strongly encourage you to open and unpack your shipment immediately upon delivery and inspect the plants thoroughly.

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$14.99 flat rate for up to 6 plants is for standard FedEx/UPS Ground shipping to eligible states only. $19.99 for up to 12 plants. Plants being shipped to the following states are sent via Express Mail to help ensure they arrive quickly and healthy. 

(AL, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, ME, MD, MA, MI, NH, NJ, NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, VT, VA, WV)
(list of states subject to change seasonally due to extreme heat or cold conditions)

We cannot ship Annie's Annuals plants to P.O. boxes or outside the continental U.S.

Individual plants are shipped in 4" pots and we ship in boxes of 4, 6, 8, or 12 plants per box.

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