{"product_id":"bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-platycodon-balloon-flower-mixed","title":"Platycodon Balloon Flower Mixed","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe bud is the show. Each one swells into a perfectly inflated balloon, geometric and taut, and holds that shape for days before splitting along its five seams into a wide cupped star of six or seven centimetres. Clear blue, soft pink and white all come on the same planting, from July to September at 60 to 80cm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a slow investment that pays for a very long time. Establishment takes a couple of years, then it improves every season and a plant will sit happily in one spot for ten or fifteen years. Do not plan to move it. It makes a substantial taproot early and hates disturbance, so raise it in deep modules and drop the rootball in intact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe one thing that loses people their platycodon is spring digging.\u003c\/strong\u003e It emerges very late, often not until May, long after everything around it is up, and a bare patch in April looks like empty ground. Put a permanent label or cane in before the foliage dies down in autumn. If you cut it, the stems bleed a milky sap that seals them and stops them drinking; sear the cut end with a match and the vase life improves enormously.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bishy Barnabees Cottage Garden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53195298767181,"sku":"PLA-BAL","price":2.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0828\/6961\/6973\/files\/Untitleddesign-4_904eb549-4fc7-4a1b-9dfe-e7e43816498c.jpg?v=1768592236","url":"https:\/\/thefoalyard.co.uk\/products\/bishy-barnabees-cottage-garden-platycodon-balloon-flower-mixed","provider":"The Foalyard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}