Bog gardening

[Martin Tversted]

Growing Sarracenias outside in Denmark with no extra summer heating requires a lot of patience and the right plants. Often they dont start to grow until medio May and this year it was end May. We have had the coldest June in 20 years so its first now end June, that they have started to have matured pitchers.
In winter, in my area we saw temperatures on serverel occations down to minus 24C and for half an hour even minus 30C.
We live on the edge of old heath land and simply use the garden soil for growing the plants in.

Drosera intermedia from North Carolina.


Drosera filiformis filiformis, also from NC




Some of the Sarracenias growing in the pond bog.


Sarracenia flower, Nympheas in the back ground.

[Martin Tversted]

VFTs are also hardy garden plants, Sarracenia seedlings in the foreground.


Picture from the gardenbog, the plant is S. purpurea purpurea from Ontario,


And its flower, oh, what a flower!


Sarracenia oreophila, rare in the wild but very easy in cultivation, here in its red form.


Sarracenia flava from North Carolina

[Martin Tversted]

A very complex hybrid involving both oreophila, flava and purpurea!


This is the bog garden. The net in the background is to prevent black birds from destroying my Drosera collection.


This one is S catesbaei x purpurea from a naturalised danish population of Sarracenia hybrids.


This ones also brought home of the wild population.

[Martin Tversted]

S flava maxima, from Virginia, not the lack of any red in the pitchers.


From the bog pond, a matured S oreophila.


S purpurea purpurea heterophylla, a purpurea free of any red.


This picture is from medio June, showing a big S flava in bloom before the leafs have unfolled.


S hybrid flower.


Various leafs comming up, note the Lobelia cardinalis, also a canadian from Kristl.

[WimB]

Wonderful, Martin! Thanks for sharing!

[Maggi Young]

Martin , you have a super range of plants there. Great to see how good they look, in spite of the late season you are having.

[Martin Tversted]

Another stunning plant, a red S oreophila


Many Erica species likes it wet and acid.


S alata x oreophila. The pure species alata is not hardy here, too cold summers!


Leucophylla is another one not hardy here, here its mixed up with more hardy genes....


These are promising! A wide range of colors. S purpurea purpurea from a population in Nova Scotia with lots of anthocyanin free plants.


Narthecium ossifragum, beautiful little monocot flowering mid summer.

[Maggi Young]

Narthecium ossifragum is one of my all time favourite wildflowers in Scotland.  I have tried it from seed several times but never succeeded. I just love it - it has brightened my day to see it in the sunshine in Martin's picture..... brings back so many memories of this flower in the wild in past years. 

[Hoy]

Hei Martin

Flott myrhage du har! Excellent bog garden you have!

[Hoy]

Martin, I forgot to ask, are you interested in wild collected Erica purpurea from my place?

[Brian Ellis]

Aren't those Sarracenia flowers amazing, and such a deep colour on the red one.  Wow

[Martin Tversted]

Carnivorous plants and in particular Droseras and Sarracenias are really something else. They are one of the highlights of summer and their shape and colorations are so different from other plants. If you can find the space, create a bog in your garden. After last nights rain the swallows came to bath in the water betwin the Sarracenias. And when you come close to the pichers you can hear the sound of 1000s of insects humming as they stand on each others shoulders in the pitchers, waiting for their turn to die.... 

[Peter Maguire]

I'm very impressed with your plants Martin - and even more impressed with the sunshine! 
I've tried Sarracenias here before and found that they tend to suffer badly from slug/snail damage. Do you have much problem with that? I would have to admit that my attempt at a bog garden is rather small - just a waterproofed half barrel sunk into the ground so the slugs don't have to travel very far across a wet environment, but I would love to have another go.

[Martin Tversted]

No, the ultimate pest in the bog is black birds...
i dont have a problem with snails as I live in heath land with a rather sandy soil. Appearently not this year but we use to have many weeks of drought which narrows the snail species down to smaller species with snails and they prefer susannes lupinus or some of her other garden plants.... Also the bog is surrounded by gravel and dry sand as I have yuccas and mesembs growing there.

[ronm]

Fantastic plants Martin, growing beautifully,    . Hope you can keep showing us these.

Apologies to everyone for being so obvious once again, but I couldn't resist,