Comments on: Ten Steps to Making a Bog Garden http://www.karensgardentips.com/garden-types-styles-and-designs/bog-garden/ten-steps-to-making-a-bog-garden/ Practical tips to help you get the most out of your garden. Thu, 15 Dec 2011 18:19:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/garden-types-styles-and-designs/bog-garden/ten-steps-to-making-a-bog-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-1159 Karen Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:17:49 +0000 http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=116#comment-1159 Patrick, I am sure you are right about mulching but here in our zone 7 garden in central North Carolina we have had no problem without mulch even in the cold winter of '09. The pitcher plants are quite attractive for much of the year and we enjoy them well into the winter, hence we don't mulch. Our Venus fly traps made it through the winter but then died in the spring due to a deer visit and something later in the summer we have not identified. Patrick,
I am sure you are right about mulching but here in our zone 7 garden in central North Carolina we have had no problem without mulch even in the cold winter of ’09. The pitcher plants are quite attractive for much of the year and we enjoy them well into the winter, hence we don’t mulch. Our Venus fly traps made it through the winter but then died in the spring due to a deer visit and something later in the summer we have not identified.

]]> By: Patrick O'Connor http://www.karensgardentips.com/garden-types-styles-and-designs/bog-garden/ten-steps-to-making-a-bog-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-1158 Patrick O'Connor Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:07:52 +0000 http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=116#comment-1158 Karen, This is not exactly a timely response. Sorry. I think a good mulch would be beneficial in zone 5 but no other precautions should be needed. Take a look at the fulva pages on my website. There's more information an links to still more. http://zydecoirises.com/Species/Fulva/Fulva.htm Patrick Karen,
This is not exactly a timely response. Sorry. I think a good mulch would be beneficial in zone 5 but no other precautions should be needed. Take a look at the fulva pages on my website. There’s more information an links to still more.
http://zydecoirises.com/Species/Fulva/Fulva.htm

Patrick

]]> By: karen http://www.karensgardentips.com/garden-types-styles-and-designs/bog-garden/ten-steps-to-making-a-bog-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-6 karen Sun, 08 Feb 2009 18:02:41 +0000 http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=116#comment-6 Hey Patrick, Thanks for your comment about the zones in which I. fulva can be grown. I am always hesitant to recommend a plant to an area unless I am sure that it will grow there and I had some difficulty nailing down the zones for I. fulva. I have done more research since your comment and have changed my post. Do I. fulva plants need winter protection in zone 5? This is a great plant and I wish more nurseries would carry it and more gardeners would grow it so please give me any info I could use to increase its popularity. Thanks Karen Hey Patrick,
Thanks for your comment about the zones in which I. fulva can be grown. I am always hesitant to recommend a plant to an area unless I am sure that it will grow there and I had some difficulty nailing down the zones for I. fulva. I have done more research since your comment and have changed my post. Do I. fulva plants need winter protection in zone 5? This is a great plant and I wish more nurseries would carry it and more gardeners would grow it so please give me any info I could use to increase its popularity.

Thanks
Karen

]]> By: Patrick O'Connor http://www.karensgardentips.com/garden-types-styles-and-designs/bog-garden/ten-steps-to-making-a-bog-garden/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Patrick O'Connor Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:02:24 +0000 http://www.karensgardentips.com/?p=116#comment-4 Hello, Karen. Very interesting instructions on bogs. One comment: I am certain that Iris fulva is hardy farther north than Zone 7. It occurs in the wild in Ohio and Illinois, so that places it naturally in Zone 5. The Louisiana irises do grow farther north than that. There is a very successful public planting in Rochester, NY. I am preparing a series of pages with pictures of that garden that I will add to my website soon. I am going to add a link to your bog instructions on the culture pages of my website. Regards, Patrick www.zydecoirises.com Hello, Karen. Very interesting instructions on bogs. One comment: I am certain that Iris fulva is hardy farther north than Zone 7. It occurs in the wild in Ohio and Illinois, so that places it naturally in Zone 5. The Louisiana irises do grow farther north than that. There is a very successful public planting in Rochester, NY. I am preparing a series of pages with pictures of that garden that I will add to my website soon.

I am going to add a link to your bog instructions on the culture pages of my website.

Regards,

Patrick
http://www.zydecoirises.com

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