Articles related to "Bog Gardening"

A look at a few bog plants designed for water gardens or just plants for a bog garden.

This is an easy to follow tutorial on putting in a bog garden for water plants and other aquatic life.

Find out how to use the Cardinal Flower in a Bog Garden setting.

Find out how to use Jewelweed in a Bog or Water Garden.

Choose or create a wet area in the garden to highlight bog plants like hostas, irises, ferns, and rushes. Choose the right container and substrate for the bog garden.

One of the most popular perennial plants for a medium size pond is also very easy to grow.

A look at two types of banana plants that work well in bog garden settings.

Common Periwinkle is an evergreen bog plant that grows fast and easy.

The Water Poppy may or may not even be a family of plants, depending on where the question is asked.

Find out how to use the Bee Balm in a Bog Garden setting and its old folk remedy usage.

Find out how to use Jack in the Pulpit in a Bog or Water Garden.

Find out how to use Joe Pye Weed in a Bog Garden setting and what it does as an old folk remedy.

There are several plants that are well suited for the bog garden setting. This article highlights the Periwinkle.

Find out how to use seashore mallow in a Bog or Water Garden.

Many are surprised to learn that there is a cold hardy hibiscus that will grow in wet swampy conditions, bloom all season and draw hummingbirds to the garden.

While low areas in the garden are often landscape challenges - think wet - and plant a water garden.

A spicy scented shrub that makes for interesting stories, the Spicebush is also good for a water garden marginal plant.

Five good choices are given for the water or bog garden that is in the shade.

Before choosing a water feature for your yard, learn about options for the do-it-yourselfer. Like many home projects, choices are limited only by your creativity.

Skunk Cabbage (Symplocarpus foetidus), Virginia Native Plant Society 2009 Wildflower of the Year, is an early blooming native plant at home in bog and water gardens.

Howick Hall Gardens are close to the beautiful Northumberland coast. After viewing the gardens you can enjoy a walk by the sea.

There are five more alternatives to the koi and goldfish for a pond or water garden; see if one entices you.

While many will naturally use water lilies in the water garden for floating plants, there are those that will like a change of pace.

Pond, fountain, stream or waterfall, water features can enhance most gardens. Many can be bought ready to install; creating your own is easy, and often more attractive.

Be wild, be daring! Here are choices that are much different than the basic koi and goldfish for a water garden.

The term is thrown around the water garden community, but how many really know what they mean when saying it? Just what is a marginal water plant?

An edible bog or wetland garden can add interest to a food garden or existing pond or wetland garden. Here are edible plant suggestions for temperate climates.

Garden pools can give hours of pleasure, and modern materials make it easy to build your own pond, but it's important to choose the right material for your situation.

The common sundew is a carnivorous bog plant that grows in temperate climates. The Drosera genus catches and eats insects using sticky tentacles.

Good quality EPDM and PVC pond liners, and butyl rubber liners, are easy to use and make it easy to build a pond or garden water feature of almost any shape or size.

Cranbrook House and Gardens, located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, combines formal gardens, Arts & Crafts architecture, and serene surroundings.

It is easy see why the Gower was named Britain's first Area of Outstanding Beauty. See award winning beaches, stunning cliff top views and The Mumbles fishing village.

Modern garden pond pumps and preformed pond liners or flexible liners make it easy to create water features like streams, waterfalls and cascades for your water garden.

Many gardeners are surprised to learn that there are varieties of hibiscus that will grow in cold climates - even where it snows.

Creating a natural pond is the most important thing you can do to attract wildlife into the garden. Provide a few creature comforts and it will soon be a wildlife haven.

Growing tips help the organic gardener make the most out of limited resources.

False Solomon's Seals are low-maintenance hardy perennials with more than one season of interest.

Rain chains, rain gardens, miniature gardens, wildlife habitats, and wetland plants are all great gift ideas for the wetland or bog gardener.

This is the hardiest pitcher plant of them all and a great carnivorous plant for bog gardens, patios, conservatories and sunny windowsills.

This is an impressive pitcher plant hardy to Zone 5, and a good choice for windowsills, cool greenhouses and patio gardens.

Climate change has increased rainfall in the UK, causing severe floods in the north west. Garden design using green roofs, porous paving and planting can reduce this.