Front yard bog garden Photo Gallery by Jim Fowler at pbase.com

Front yard bog garden

This gallery will detail the yearly progress of my front yard bog garden in Greenville, SC. I dug it in November of 2004. Its size is 10 feet x 3 feet (~ 3 meters x 1 meter). It is 18 inches (~ 45 cm) deep, lined with a heavy pool liner, and is filled with 50% Canadian peat and 50% sand. It gets about 7 hours of direct sunlight per day during mid-summer.

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Sarracenia flava var. flava - first Sarracenia to bloom this year	Sarracenia flava var. cuprea - already producing pitchers while in bloom	Sarracenia alata	Sarracenia Xcatesbaei (S. flava x S. purpurea subsp. venosa) - flowers from two different plants	Sarracenia rubra subsp. wherryi
Sarracenia purpurea subsp. venosa (three year old, seed grown plant)	Sarracenia purpurea subsp venosa in morning sun with open flowers	Sarracenia psittacena	Calopogon tuberosus clump just about to bloom - started with 5 corms 4 years ago	Calopogon tuberosus a bit farther along
Calopogon tuberosus at peak bloom	Calopogon tuberosus at peak bloom	Vandalism - a hole where dozens of orchids once bloomed...	Sarracenia minor	Bog garden on 2008-05-13 when pretty much intact...
Calopogon tuberosus - pink form - one of five that was left behind	Venus flytrap sculpture on the campus of Univ. Wisconsin	Drosera filiformis var. tracyi	Drosera filiformis var. tracyi	Calopogon tuberosus forma albiflorus - blooms several weeks later than the magenta ones
Calopogon tuberosus forma albiflorus	Bog garden from a distance - so dry that the grass in turning brown	Bog garden - another angle	Calopogon tuberosus forma albiflorus at peak bloom	I cut about half of the stems so that I could enjoy them inside...
Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower) now about three feet (1 meter) tall	Lobelia cardinalis (cardinal flower)	Platanthera ciliaris (yellow fringed orchid)	Platanthera ciliaris (yellow fringed orchid)	Platanthera ciliaris (yellow fringed orchid)
Platanthera ciliaris (yellow fringed orchid)	Bog Garden	Drosera filiformis var. traceyi - backlit at dawn	Drosera filiformis var. traceyi	Spiranthes cernua with Sarracenia minor in the background
Spiranthes cernua closeup	Spiranthes ochroleuca with Sarracenia 'Scarlet Belle" in the background	Spiranthes ochroleuca	Spiranthes cernua ready to be in full bloom in a week or so	Spiranthes cernua in full bloom
Spiranthes cernua closer

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Kelvin Taylor		03-Jul-2008 02:08
Wonderful collection of native plants Jim. I enjoyed seeing the display through the blooming season.

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