Articles related to "Bog Plants"



Native Plants for a Bog Garden
A look at a few bog plants designed for water gardens or just plants for a bog garden.
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Banana Plants for Bog Gardens
A look at two types of banana plants that work well in bog garden settings.
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Bog Garden Spotlight on Vinca Minor
Common Periwinkle is an evergreen bog plant that grows fast and easy.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Bee Balm
Find out how to use the Bee Balm in a Bog Garden setting and its old folk remedy usage.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Cardinal Flower
Find out how to use the Cardinal Flower in a Bog Garden setting.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Jewelweed
Find out how to use Jewelweed in a Bog or Water Garden.
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Calling all Carnivores
An unusual plant with a lot of character adds color to a shallow shelf in your water garden.
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Ontario Field Guides from Lone Pine Publishing
Every nature lover needs field guides to both the flora and fauna of the various geographical regions they visit or live in. These two guides provide good information on Ontario plants.
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Pond Plants In Summer
Early summer is normally the best time to organise the plants in and around your garden pond.
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Water Garden Spotlight -Taro
Take a look at the water garden plant Colocasia esculenta and its uses as a root vegetable and ornamental aquatic decoration.
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Water Garden Spotlight: Chinese Lizard Tail
Chinese Lizard Tail has many uses, the least of which is a charming water garden plant.
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Edible Bog and Wetland Plants
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.
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Finding Pond Plants Online
Buying pond and bog plants like lilies and iris online increases the availability of interesting species. Think about when to ship and what pond plants to buy online.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Jack In The Pulpit
Find out how to use Jack in the Pulpit in a Bog or Water Garden.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Joe Pye Weed
Find out how to use Joe Pye Weed in a Bog Garden setting and what it does as an old folk remedy.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Periwinkle
There are several plants that are well suited for the bog garden setting. This article highlights the Periwinkle.
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Bog Garden Spotlight: Seashore Mallow
Find out how to use seashore mallow in a Bog or Water Garden.
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Build a Small Bog 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.
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Shady Water Garden Plants
Five good choices are given for the water or bog garden that is in the shade.
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Spring Cleaning Your Pond
Spring is in the air in many locals and now people are starting to see signs of their ponds waking up. This waking up can include dreaded green algae.
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The Common or Round-Leaved Sundew
The common sundew is a carnivorous bog plant that grows in temperate climates. The Drosera genus catches and eats insects using sticky tentacles.
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Water gardening in January?
Don't let the cold winds of winter fool you! Now's the time to read, dream, plan, and weather permitting, build your water garden.
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Fish Pond Maintenance for Fall
Maintaining a Koi pond or goldfish pond takes extra effort in the fall of the year to help the fish and plants transition to a dormant state for the winter months.
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Bog Bodies
Preserved by the acid, oxygen free conditions in peat bogs, bog bodies reveal a great deal about life in the Iron Age. But were they ritual sacrifices or murder victims?
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Cardinal Flower Lobelia
Learn the uses, care and varieties of perennial lobelia in the garden. Cardinal flowers are a popular choice for many gardeners; find out why.
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Garden Hibiscus and Plants for the Bog 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.
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Planting Around Your Pond
Discover why the area around your pond is just as important as your pond itself and the easy to find plants you can use to provide haven for wildlife.
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Wintering Plants Indoors
Don't let your tropical and subtropical plants die, try wintering them indoors for a head start next season!
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Perennials for Moist Soil H to Peltandra
The second in a series about moist soil.
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What's New in Gardening, March 27, 2000
The latest news about online plant bargains, tools and tips for making gardening easier, and good news and bad news in the gardening world.
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Decorating with Houseplants Online Course
This fascinating mini-course instructs the student to best set off your home, improve your health and design the best houseplant feng shui for your goals.
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Decorating with Houseplants Online Course
This fascinating mini-course instructs the student to best set off your home, improve your health and design the best houseplant feng shui for your goals.
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Backyard Pond Basics
Building a water garden is a wonderful hobby, but it can take several seasons to get the balance right to create the perfect atmosphere. Patience is the key to success.
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Fall Water Garden Maintenance
A look at seasonal maintenance for water gardens in the Fall season.
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Mailorder Nurseries Online and Off, Part 9, WE-DU Nurseries
WE-DU Nurseries in Marion, NC, has been sending plants to gardeners for eighteen years. If you haven't discovered the lovely list of nursery propagated natives, rare bulbs, bog plants, perennials and woody plants, let me tell you about some of them. (There are lots of photos, so please be patient while they load).
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Mix Your Own Potting Soil for Container Plants
Not all potting soils are created equal. There are many good reasons to have just the right ingredients for the health of your container plants.
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What Kind of Shade - Part Three - Damp Shade

Habitat for Green Anoles and Other Wildlife
My favorite lizard is a Green Anole, and our yard plays host to a number of them as a result of our efforts to create habitat suitable to their needs. Read about the National Wildlife Federation's Backyard Habitat program.
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How to Grow a Venus' Flytrap
Venus' flytraps have a reputation for being difficult to grow, but there are only 3 things you need to get right to keep them successfully: water, light, and temperature.
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Kohan Reflection Gardens in New Denver, BC
The Kohan Japanese Internment Memorial Reflection Gardens in Canada's West Kootenay region are designed to make travelers aware of tragic WWII event in Canadian history.
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My Big Backyard at the Memphis Botanic Garden
Seen one children's garden, seen 'em all? Not so! The newly opened destination at Memphis Botanic Garden takes creativity and imagination to a new level!
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Rain Garden Designs for Parks, Roads, Yards
Rain Gardens lower landscape maintenance time and costs while filtering and infiltrating water to improve water quality.
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2004 Book Forecast
Discover what books will be coming out soon to provide inspiration and insight!
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Common Garden Issues
Gardeners frequent face these common issues: ponds, no place to garden, and too much shade. The books reviewed this week discuss these issues.
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Maytime in Mayfair - London in Bloom
Travelsleuth Stuart Buchanan MacWatt trips a light fantastic to London. He enjoys Maytime in Mayfair after Spring in Park Lane, visits the RHS Chelsea Flower Show in Chelsea, and looks at a Wren masterpiece.
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The Basics of Seed-Starting
Understanding the needs of seeds leads to greater success in the garden.
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A Gardener's Journey into Winter.
"Sometimes I can believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast" said the Red Queen to Alice. And I can say the same thing. The passage from summer to winter is also the journey from the garden in the yard to a garden in the imagination.
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Backyard Bullfrog Gunk
frogs, backyard ponds, backyard wildlife, bullfrog, Rana catesbeiana
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Choosing Your Plants (Or Pick a Peck of Pickerel)
Lilies and Lotus and Shade OH MY! What can you grow in your pond? Here is some information I've rounded up on choosing plants for your pond. Don't forget to check out the links, both in the article and in the "Links List."
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Forced to go Fishing!
Butterflies are free - and so were our bass - but in the entirely wrong sense of that word. And so my husband and I lose some money and learn a lesson about freedom.


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