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From the album: Bogs and Outside July 2014
The sundews are starting to die back. Maybe it's too hot for them. -
From the album: Bogs and Outside July 2014
Meanwhile, in the bogs. -
From the album: Bogs and Outside July 2014
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From the album: Bogs and Outside July 2014
That thing on a stalk. Is it a flower? -
From the album: Bogs and Outside July 2014
Seems to be doing ok. It's bigger than it was when I got it at any rate. -
From the album: Bogs and Outside July 2014
It's on a south-facing window-sill with a tray that I keep topped up, and I've given it one spray of fertilizer so far. -
From the album: Bogs and Outside July 2014
Saw this in the garden centre about 2 months ago for £20. Couldn't resist, even though I know how hard they are to keep. -
I didn't know that! I've manged to get a bunch of seedlings into another pot. I might sacrifice them in the cause of experiment then. Speaking of capensis, would they do ok in an outside bog then? And what about binata?
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I sometimes wonder about the rainwater coming off our roof, carrying all the grit and minerals from the slates, along with dissolved pigeon poo chock full of nitrates. Looking at it that way, Brita filtered water doesn't sound half so bad.
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I bought a Brita filter jug about 3 years ago just for such an eventuality, and it has saved my plants on many an occasion. Plus we found we actually like the taste of the filtered water. I have bogs out the back too, and they have never complained over filtered water.
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Do you really mean 20cm? Isn't that a bit thick for moss? Sure you don't mean 20mm? This year I discovered 5 or 6 d.rotundifolia and d.anglica that had self-seeded and grown through established sphagnum, so yes they have no difficulty.
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You seem to have an identical collection of plants to me. Plus I also have a Belfast sink in the garden, though it is currently unused. I couldn't use it for a bog now, as we have rabbits in the garden and they would quickly make a meal of all my plants. I have had to use plastic troughs raised a metre or so above the ground. I'd agree that your Butterwort looks Mexican as it looks the same as mine. As does your Cape Sundew. Both of these have been living happily on a south-facing indoor window ledge for at least the last five years, and would not do well in a bog. The capensis in particular doesn't do very well out in the sun anyway. It goes red and dries up if I don't put it in some kind of shade.
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014
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From the album: Bogs June 2014