Backyard Wetland - It's A Bog, A Quaking Bog, A Swamp, A Fen, A Marsh!
The University of Illinois Extension Service posted a cool article nigh how to purpose those last-to-dry spots inwards the yard.
Called Coles County Yard together with Garden, the writer wrote, " Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bog tends to live waterlogged soil without whatever standing H2O (and hence non a musquito magnet).
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Quaking Bog is a floating mat of thickly woven mosses, rushes, together with shrubs that forms across the surface of shallow ponds together with may shimmy or milkshake when walked on.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fen is an expanse of waterlogged soil that tends to live peaty together with is fed past times upwelling water. The divergence betwixt a bog together with a fen is the H2O rootage together with the acidity of the site. Bogs tend to live acidic; fens are to a greater extent than alkaline. Water flows into bogs alone through rainwater together with run-off, piece fens are every bit good fed past times groundwater.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marsh has standing H2O – either temporary or permanent – together with hosts vegetation such every bit cattails.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 swamp is a wetland expanse amongst trees.
Wetlands are 1 of the richest biological habitats on Earth. Unfortunately, for centuries nosotros humans convey viewed them every bit a physical constraint together with convey drained them for purpose past times the ever-growing population.
The eradication of wetlands is a global phenomenon, primarily for agriculture. In addition, people mine bogs for peat for fuel together with a soil conditioner. Recently, environmentalists recognize bogs for their business office inwards regulating the global climate.
Bogs are unique communities that tin live destroyed inwards a thing of days, precisely demand hundreds of years to cast naturally."
Click over to the link higher upwards for tips on edifice a bog.
Here are a few recommended bog/marsh plants
Plants for acidic bogs - There are many colorful varieties of Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia) which tin alive upwards to l years, hardy Sundews (Drosera), together with Venus Flytrap (Dionaea).
For non-acidic bogs - Astilbe, Bamboo, Lady's Slipper Orchid, Day Lily, Siberian Iris, Creeping jenny, Rush, Royal Fern, Phlox, May apple, Solomon's Seal, Primrose, Great Bulrush, Golden Rod, Periwinkle, Trillium.
More found ideas at http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/special/spaces/designing-bog-gardens.html
Also, at the bottom of the Coles County Yard together with Garden newsetter page, at that spot is a link to their other articles - lots to explore there.
Called Coles County Yard together with Garden, the writer wrote, " Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 bog tends to live waterlogged soil without whatever standing H2O (and hence non a musquito magnet).
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Quaking Bog is a floating mat of thickly woven mosses, rushes, together with shrubs that forms across the surface of shallow ponds together with may shimmy or milkshake when walked on.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 fen is an expanse of waterlogged soil that tends to live peaty together with is fed past times upwelling water. The divergence betwixt a bog together with a fen is the H2O rootage together with the acidity of the site. Bogs tend to live acidic; fens are to a greater extent than alkaline. Water flows into bogs alone through rainwater together with run-off, piece fens are every bit good fed past times groundwater.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 marsh has standing H2O – either temporary or permanent – together with hosts vegetation such every bit cattails.
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 swamp is a wetland expanse amongst trees.
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Wetlands are 1 of the richest biological habitats on Earth. Unfortunately, for centuries nosotros humans convey viewed them every bit a physical constraint together with convey drained them for purpose past times the ever-growing population.
The eradication of wetlands is a global phenomenon, primarily for agriculture. In addition, people mine bogs for peat for fuel together with a soil conditioner. Recently, environmentalists recognize bogs for their business office inwards regulating the global climate.
Bogs are unique communities that tin live destroyed inwards a thing of days, precisely demand hundreds of years to cast naturally."
Click over to the link higher upwards for tips on edifice a bog.
Here are a few recommended bog/marsh plants
Plants for acidic bogs - There are many colorful varieties of Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia) which tin alive upwards to l years, hardy Sundews (Drosera), together with Venus Flytrap (Dionaea).
For non-acidic bogs - Astilbe, Bamboo, Lady's Slipper Orchid, Day Lily, Siberian Iris, Creeping jenny, Rush, Royal Fern, Phlox, May apple, Solomon's Seal, Primrose, Great Bulrush, Golden Rod, Periwinkle, Trillium.
More found ideas at http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/special/spaces/designing-bog-gardens.html
Also, at the bottom of the Coles County Yard together with Garden newsetter page, at that spot is a link to their other articles - lots to explore there.