suffolkliz Wrote:

Red Kite Wrote:JUst had another look at this thread I love your bog garden Liz, can I see Purple Loosestrife & Bog Bean?
I've both waiting to go in mine if I ever get it finished, it fills up now with heavy rain but needs a liner & some of the sides dropped a bit hopefully it will be ready for the frogs next summer. I've also got Flag Iris, Watermint, Brooklime, Marsh Valerian Marsh Marogolds & Meadowsweet all waiting plus a couple of kinds of rushes & sedges, I'm luck & have plenty of space but any pond no matter how small is great.

Redkite - you know your water plants that's for sure. You are quite right - bogbean and purple loosetrife - though this loosestife is a hybridised one... it's really small called 'rocket' if my memory serves me correctly. I have the wild purple loostrife in the seperate bog garden where it can grow nice and big - the bees love it.

When I started the wildlife pond my friend from the Suffolk wildlife Trust gave me the bogbean and lesser water plantain ... he also gave me 'greater water plaintain' but it was rather too 'great' for it so I had to take it out. I have meadowsweet, bugle, ladies smock, marsh marigold, watermint and watercress that are the remanants of my original collection but I had reduce it down a bit as the jungle got just a tad manic

I'd love to see pics of your pond Redkite - sounds like it's going to be fabulous.


Thanks to everyone for their lovely comments about my ponds

Bramble1 - what a enormous lake! Lovely setting.... wouldn't mind having that in my back garden!

I'm al little naughty, when doing a survey I take a piece of rhizome if a plant grows that way my Plurple Loosestrife came from a dense mass that kept growing as my client cut the area then roughly cultivated the surface splitting the rhizomes & creating more plants. Bog Bean, Brook lime root very easily from just a couple if inches if stem put in water.
I'd love to have some Flowering Rush, Burr Reed, & Common Reed, I'd also like some Bugle & Lesser Plantain though I don't see that much growing in my areas so wouldn't thake any. The Marsh Valarian is a beautiful plant that likes damp conditions.
No Reed Mace/Bull Rush though they take over, I've just posted some photos of our pond !/2 constructed but full after all the torrential rain.

Edit: I've just seen your photos Sharon they are beautiful

(This post was last modified: 07-09-08, 09:33 PM by Red Kite.)