OK, part II! Not much more to show really. It’s a pretty small garden.

Here’s the little Pinguicula in bloom last year. It flowered well this year but the rains mashed the poor little guys into the peat. The plants are fine, the flowers weren’t.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/tvelardi/LittlePing.jpg

Here’s a new pitcher on the S. leucophylla cross. It was sold to me as S. leucophylla, but it obviously is not. Very likely it is a cross with S. rubra.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/tvelardi/sunpitcher.jpg

And a close up of the veination on a mature pitcher. Pretty wild!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/tvelardi/SleucophyllaVeins.jpg

Finally, the cranberries in flower. Each year this little garden makes a handful of them. This is a very aggressive growing vining plant and shouldn’t be used in small bog gardens. I have to keep cutting the new runners just about every week. I sort of have a cranberry bonsai now!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/tvelardi/Cranberries.jpg

I encourage you all to try one of these gardens. They are pretty maintanence free once they get going. I just do a spring cleaning by cutting away all dead parts. In nature many bogs and seepage slopes burn thus effectively cleaning out the bog. Bogs are open sunny environments, and that is what you should try to create with yours.

Tom

Excellent shots of your beautiful plants, thanks for posting the sequel! :D

I love it! Mmmmmmm, I love cranberries too! Do your pings do ok in full sun, or are they sort of shaded by other plants in your bog?

Such an interesting variation in color, texture and pattern.

Tom,

Thanks again for the great pictures!

I love it! Mmmmmmm, I love cranberries too! Do your pings do ok in full sun, or are they sort of shaded by other plants in your bog?

Teresa, they do get shaded from the sun by the other plants, yes. I've seen them growing fully exposed on roadsides in Florida however. The trick is to keep them wet!

Thanks Tom!
Like the cranberries too!

Since you guys seem to like them, here's a cranberry itself!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v164/tvelardi/Cranberry2.jpg

Tom

Looks yummy!
Thanks

Looks delicious! :D

Soooo coooool! I have never seen an actual cranberry on the vine. It looks like the sarracenia wants to eat it! Do you get alot of berries off your plant?

looks great Tom...I may have to dry a small bog garden

looks great Tom...I may have to dry a small bog garden

Lowell, I would suggest not a dry bog, but a wet one. They grow much better that way! :poke: Sorry, just kidding! :lol:

Do you get alot of berries off your plant?

Just a small handful each fall. If I had a larger bog (say the size of a pool table) then I could get a decent amount of fruits.

Tom

so pretty phots

Thanks Tom...typing isn't my specialty

Very cool garden! The Calopogons and Pogonias look great.

I am trying one with some Platanthera ciliaris. If I can get them to grow it will take me back to my days in SC where they and the other Platantheras grew by the thousands in the always-wet roadside wetlands!

Ron Burch