Re: Primroses

Hi Gene:

I know a lot of gardeners with this "stream/pond" dream floating around
in their heads. Two years ago I had a friend with a tractor clean out an
old tile spring adjacent to a barn foundation that is becoming a great
shade garden. The water table had dropped 15 feet over the years but the
area was still moist. My plan was to take out the tiles (so no one fell
down them) and then excavate for a bog garden.

Part of the "stream/pond" dream is the absence of reality in terms of
time required and cost. I watched the excavation fill with water and
then fade to a patch of mud this summer at which time I added a liner
and began filling with peat and sphagnum as the start of a bog garden. I
finished that part of the project with 4 inches of snow on the ground.

The foundation planting has a small plastic pond and the goal is to have
a stream flow out to the bog area and then get pumped back. I know there
is enough moisture there that any moisture loving plants surrounding the
bog will do well. A while back the hosta list named some hosta that do
well in wet areas. I plant to try them. I have an assortment of
ligularias and other plants. I want to add native plants too.

But as you say "What I would not give for a small constant
stream...............

George Africa
Vermont Flower Farm
256 Peacham Pond Road
Marshfield VT 05658-8099
Tel. 802-426-3505
FAX 802-426-3706
Zone 4   14 degrees right now
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