Beauties in a wet spot
We ’re travel with Cherry Ong today , operate through clock time as well as in space to visit the bog garden atHatley Castle . The castle is a historic site in Victoria , British Columbia , surrounded by beautiful gardens .
The area around raw lakes andpondsare often capital sites for bog garden . And if you are building a pool , a peat bog sphere can be summate formoisture - loving flora .
Nipponese primrose ( Primulajaponica , Zones 4–9 ) is a classic lover of a bog garden . It involve constantly damp land ; impart that , it will flower beautifully and often seed around a little as well .
The umbrella flora ( Darmerapeltata , Zones 5–7 ) is anativeof the west coast of North America and has these lovely pink efflorescence in the fountain followed by bluff , umbrella - shape leave of absence that give the industrial plant its common name .
Unlike the Nipponese primula , lovely littleprimrosessuch as this one ( Primulahybrid , Zones 3–8 ) do n’t demand bog condition . They do , however , opt soil that does n’t dry out .
Oxalisoregana(Zones 7–9 ) is native to thePacific Northwest . It has pretty pink or white flowers , but the silver - patterned foliage is reason enough to grow it .
It ’s hard to beat the flowers of aRhododendron .
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