Creating A Container Bog Garden

It is all dry fit so i can swap out the vertical pipe to raise or lower the water or to drain the bog completely.

Creating a container bog garden.

Create a miniature bog garden. I harvest rainwater from my roof and supplement with distilled water when. It s not as large a commitment as a backyard bog garden and is just as rewarding. Tips for how to make a bog garden.

Absolutely you could do this. Well water may also be too alkaline. The glitch is that most tap water is neutral to alkaline and full of mineral salts and chlorine that will damage your plants. Building a container bog is the perfect solution for gardeners who wish to start small.

There are some lovely plants for growing in damp boggy conditions but if your soil is well drained and dries out quickly these bog plants will struggle to grow. You do not have to have a pond to enjoy a bog garden as long as you get the growing conditions right. The soil must never dry out. A simple way of growing bog plants is in a large container such as a half barrel that has no drainage holes in the base.

Learn how to create a bog garden in containers with this gardening tutorial. Blackmore recommended a book called the savage garden to learn more about creating a bog garden. The pipe goes out the side to an elbow to create an adjustable water table. Although a bog garden can support a few types of orchids and other highly specialized plants most people like to grow carnivorous plants such as sundews pitcher plants and flytraps.

We have discussed how to create a container bog garden from scratch and what plants to use if the containers are placed in a sunny spot. If you would like to create a bog garden on a much smaller scale then you can easily use a container. A bog a wetland environment with nutrient poor highly acidic conditions is uninhabitable for most plants. The most important maintenance job for a container bog garden is watering.

One way is to situate the bog garden alongside the pond to keep all the water features like pumps liners and plants together for ease of care and maintenance as well as for sharing water. The brooklyn botanic garden recommends the following supplies and steps for creating your mini bog. Start small if you re new to bog gardens or use an existing boggy area. The soil needs to be reliably moist all year round.

On the end of the pipe inside the container i put a 90 degree elbow with the opening pointed down. When building the pond build the bog garden at the same time and make use of any liner pieces not used in the pond. You can always expand it. Spring is the best time to start a bog garden so that the plants have plenty of time to establish once the soil warms up.

In this article we have talked about how to create a bog garden in containers. To keep your bog garden well watered consider lying a soaker hose over the soil surface and disguise it with a layer of mulch. If you don t have space for a full size bog creating a container bog garden is easily done.