Re: Primroses/ Hosta

Hello George,
    Hopefully I will get to see some good photos of your creativity this
coming season. Since my new area will be on the side of a hill, I may use
Marge's materials. The large sheets of plastic as opposed to the molded
pools I have used in the past. Perhaps a couple or railroad ties at the
bottom of the slope and then back up to my stream and bridge. Perhaps mostly
filling as opposed to digging and filling... we shall see.
    Speaking of Hosta. Would you .. or anyone else on the list... know how
much it is to join the national Hosta bunch now? Who and where do you send
your check to for membership? I let my membership expire some time back.
    Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens, llc
www.munchkinnursery.com
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
Zone 6/5  Southern Indiana

----- Original Message -----
> 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
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