re: bog garden
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- Subject: re: bog garden
- From: r* <t*@catskill.net>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 19:35:22 -0600 (MDT)
Hi Everyone--
Ellen in the frozen tundra has blooms nd bloomstalks; I, on the other
hand, have a few TB bloomstalks and certainly no blooms. But I'm
getting there.
Today I finished the bog garden (of course, I'll never really finish the
bog garden) and it has LAs, JIs, 3 clumps of CAESAR'S BROTHER (I really
must got some SIBS in something other than purple), 3 Cardinalis Lobelia
QUEEN VICTORIA (red, of course), and a huge yellow Ligularia. I have
one part of it lined with daylilies (they were there to begin with; I
just saved their little lives).
The pond now has 7 waterlilies (although there is no sign of the 2 red
ones as yet), 2 PICKERAL RUSH (purple), some lovely grasses that I
didn't plant, the enormous clump of pseudacorus that has thrown shoots
that are coming up about a foot closer to the edge of the pond, CHILLED
WINE (if indeed that is what it is), and what looks like a very small
water lily growing near the edge i50' across from the waterlilies I
planted. I don't know if this really is a water lily or a midget
imposter. I can't wait to see what happens to it. My garden helpers
who don't mind pond muck pulled every cat-tail emerging from the pond.
Today, GREEN SCUM, an old familiar friend tht is frequently a forerunner
of FILAMENTOUS ALGAE, my old enemy that I will fight to the death (I
will win).
Rima terra@catskill.net
upstate NY zone 4
