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Bog Gardens - Aroids which will thrive in one?
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From: "William M. Groth" <groth at rice.edu> on 1997.11.14 at 23:43:54(1619)
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.
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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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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.
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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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