My garden have some really boggy areas; anybody get suggestions for suitable plants? The soil is peaty (acid). Roddies grow like wildfire but so...
The soil is peaty (acid). Roddies grow like wildfire but so abundant things get swamped!
Eucalyptus.
Apart from sucking up water resembling a sponge,the aroma is great
Crush the leaves for a inhaler for blocked noses as okay
Pussy willow.
ha! it get censored
P u s s y willow
Any willow will resembling the damp. You can seize them bare rooted at this time of year (UK) from some garden centre. You can get loads of different ones near coloured stems for winter colour.
Rhubarb is good, as are hostas.
Sunflowers are great as they be once used to drain fenlands in enthusiasm for crop growing. They soak up loads of water. I know you can't plant them however, but they will help during the summer months, and they won't appropriate over.
Hi:
There are some good plant specimens that would work resourcefully in a bog nouns. Here are some suggestions for you:
Blue Bell
Dwarf Lily
Cana Lilies
Taro
Lizard Tails
Spider Lily
Horsetail Rush
Umbrella Palm
Yellow Iris
Dwarf Cattail or regular Catail
You can also plant some shrubs and if you have room for a tree a River Birch loves soggy conditions.
If your soil is too tart base, consider some lime within it. Hope this helps some and if you involve any further suggestions, please feel free to contact me at my website. I will join you to my site map as this page has everything explicitly on the site. Browse through and see if there are any tips that can assistance you. I will also link you to my gallery page as this have photos and descriptions of different plant specimens. Have a great day!
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Scroll waaaaay down this link to see a index of flowers and other types of plants for bog areas:
http://www.plantideas.com/bog/index.html
Build a dry creek or plant -
Swamp Maple
River Birch
Amelanchier
Bog Rosemary
Yellow Flag
Marsh Marigolds
Selected Viburnums
Red Chokeberry
Calluna vulgaris
Fringetree
Summersweet
Shrub Dogwood
Enkianthus campanulatus
selected cultivated -St. Johnswort
Inkberry or Winterberry Holly
Sweetspire
Wax Myrtle
Mt. Laurel
Spicebush
Sweetbay Magnolia
Miscanthus
Japenes Iris
Blueberries
Viburnum
Of course it adjectives depends on where you live, but I hope this help! :)
Answers: If you own the room plant, plant a Gunnera manicata, if less room, plant a Gunnera tinctoria. Underplnt these near Lysichiton americanum and Arisaema species in generous groups. Depending on your winter temperatures, you can introduce Colocasia esculenta - probably hardy to around -4C, but hold on to an eye on it as its a bit of ramper.
Other groupings might include Rodgersia bipinnata, R. aesculifolia; Ligularia dentata and its cultivars.
Most bog plants have sizeable round leaves, so break this up with groupings of irises such as: I. sibirica, I. laevigata, I. pseudocorus
a couple of small fir trees