RE: Bog Gardens - Aroids which will thrive in one?

From: Lester Kallus <lkallus at earthlink.net> on 1997.11.17 at 15:11:15(1623) Consider planting the plants in soil that has been laced with a water retentive gel. Those are compounds that start out like grains of sand but blow up to marble sized blobs of jello. That way, the bog garden would be a muddy area in the middle of regular garden. It might give you a much larger bog garden than you could otherwise arrange. +More At 05:44 PM 11/14/97 -0600, you wrote: >Hello Aroidians, > > I read about an effort to set up a bog garden and I was wondering >if I might be able to do the same in an old 20 gal. aquarium I have which is >outside and cracked glass in back (casualty of the cold snap we had last year. >It has a base of old aquatic plants in it to form what could be classified as >a miniature bog. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to develop a bog >garden and especially what species of Aroids would thrive in a bog garden. > >I am in Houston, TX zone 9a Upper Texas Gulf Coast. >______________________________________________________________________ > > William M. Groth > groth@ruf.rice.edu > Senior Staff Auditor > Internal Audit Department > phone: (713) 527-8101 ext.3759 > fax: (713) 285-5927 >_____________________________________________________________________ > > >

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