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Bog Garden - Bog Garden Forum - GardenWeb
... carnivores, bog orchids, acid loving nutrient poor plants, cranberries, blueberries, etc.. Replicating bogs, kettle holes, muskeg found in nature. 2. Wet high nutrient bog with little drainage. Replicating ... sun. Used to grow carnivores, bog orchids, acid loving nutrient poor plants, cranberries, blueberries, etc. 2. Wet high nutrient bog with little drainage. Replicates marsh or swamp or.... ...
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Fen Garden - Bog Garden Forum - GardenWeb
... the high nutient route, but I've also heard of natural low-nutrient alkaline fens with Carnivores, but never heard about anyone trying that, ... past mistakes. Here are some tips based on my mistakes Try the nutrient poor fen, you can always add nutrients later, but they cannot be ... their own)I found that weeds don't tend to invade nutrient poor bogs, but fens are another matter. If you can find tuffa ...
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Cacti ARE Succulents (Part 1)
... soil is, although nutrient poor, not pure sand. Habitats where cacti can be found range from semi desserts to dry grasslands where rainfall is periodic and soils are generally poor and from sub ... jungles, cacti are epiphytic and grow in trees and have adapted to growing in shaded, nutrient poor environments by having flat stem segments to capture the filtered light efficiently and by having ...
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TILLANDSIAS
... terrestrials, growing in soil, to atmospherics, which do not use roots for water and nutrient uptake. HABITAT: Tillandsias are found from the southern United States through Central America ... Gray-leafed tillandsia leaf surfaces must dry thoroughly between waterings. Although they grow in nutrient-poor situations, tillandsias benefit from fertilizing. The fertilizer should be given at no more than ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Woodland
... neutral or basic pH will have a somewhat different range of species to an acidic, nutrient-poor upland oakwood. Some of the mosses and liverworts which occur in Welsh woodlands are listed ... calyptra. Zygodon conoideus This small epiphytic moss occurs most frequently on tree species with a nutrient-rich, fairly basic, rough-textured bark, in particular elder and ash. Its leaves are longly ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Bogs
... , they are also often very acidic environments. Indeed, ombrotrophic bogs represent one of the most nutrient-poor and acidic environments in the Welsh natural landscape. There are various types of bogs or ...
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Flora of North America - The Outreach Resources
... from its close relatives with sticky traps] Plant carnivory is an adaptation to life in nutrient-poor environments. Can your students think of plants in other stressful habitats that show convergent evolution ...
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Bog
... rain forest. Carniverous plants get nitrogen from insects that they can't get from the nutrient-poor bog. The sticky red hairs of the small sundew hold, then fold over an insect ...
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Comparing Oceans - Temperate versus Tropical Seas
... a coral reef of equivalent size. Tropical waters are characterized by high light levels and nutrient-poor (crystal-clear) waters. Though plankton can't be seen from space, NASA's SeaWIFS satellite ... sustains fish populations as well as the birds, marine mammals and humans dependent upon them. Nutrient rich water is the source of the soup of phytoplankton and zooplankton that, in some ...
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Carnivorous Plants
... century it was proven. Genlisea species are rare in the wild and occur mainly in nutrient-poor white sands and moist rock outcrops in South America and tropical Africa. They form a ...
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