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Post by partisangardener on Dec 20, 2014 21:41:10 GMT
This piece covered with some coconut fiber mats and substrate filled in looked that way. some beautywork my idea to stick it to the bank of the pond with stones on the coconut fiberblankets, was not a very clever idea. The water level changes with the summer heat a lot. The stones did tumble onto the floating board and this does not look too good. I have to work this over, some time, maybe. The fiberblankets are fixed to the styrofoam board with iron nails this worked good. This is the upper end just today.
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Post by partisangardener on Dec 20, 2014 21:49:32 GMT
Coconut fiber might not be a very good idea because of the load of minerals there. I leached out probably quite a lot while keeping it some month outside under our rainy conditions. But this material is soaked in latex so I don’t know. Maybe my plants would have grown faster without it. Possibly jute would be better, I don’t know. Next time I will show how I created an accessible maintenance path into the bog. between the stepping stones is Sphagnum Dionaeas Sarracenias and other bog plants.
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Post by partisangardener on Dec 22, 2014 22:13:02 GMT
The maintenance path into the bog in order to reach every trough is founded with some gravel. Onto it some fleece topped by a quality pool liner. Onto this some limefree stepping stones with some extra fleece. For water reservoir I put a drainage tube in, the ends covered with some fleece, in order to keep the gravel and sand out.
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Post by partisangardener on Dec 22, 2014 22:18:27 GMT
Afterward I filled it up with some more stones gravel and sand.
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Post by partisangardener on Dec 29, 2014 8:46:27 GMT
This maintenance path is well documented in this overview from November. The small black plastic container is placed on this path. At the moment it is snowed in.
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Post by partisangardener on Dec 2, 2015 9:29:38 GMT
A update from this year Some Cypripedium regia in full flare in a shady part of the bog. There are other species of this genus there but they are much earlier.
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Post by partisangardener on Jun 5, 2016 14:14:58 GMT
This Orchid is flowering again so I won’t bother you with it. But my Iris chrysographes seed grown starts its first flower two others have buds. Also Gladiolus palustris likes my patchwork bog and started to flower again, first time in the bog. I nearly lost it in its pot after many years.
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Post by hcarlton on Jun 6, 2016 2:54:52 GMT
I need this kind of setup in my yard one day....and I love that iris.
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Post by partisangardener on Jun 8, 2016 16:48:31 GMT
Maybe I get seeds. Today another plant started to bloom even darker. It is the graslike looking plant behind the S.purpurea, right to Gladiolus palustris.
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Post by hcarlton on Jun 9, 2016 1:57:28 GMT
Iris are one of my favorite flowers, and dark things are extremely attractive to me. You're killing me here....
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Post by partisangardener on Jun 9, 2016 5:57:22 GMT
If they set seed I send you some of it. With my regime they grow very successful Greetings Axel
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Post by partisangardener on Sept 20, 2016 19:46:28 GMT
No seeds this year. I tried to pollinate but they did not take it. Maybe next year.
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