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ID of wildflower found in French Alps - Name That Plant Forum - GardenWeb
... acidic wetlands and peat bogs all over northern parts of Europe, Asia and North America...The presence of cottongrass is a useful indicator to hikers of potentially dangerous deep peat bogs to be avoided ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Conservation
... evergreen and cast dense shade throughout the year, inhibiting the growth of bryophytes. Many peat bogs have been drained, ploughed and re-planted for forestry or agriculture, destroying the natural ... including the Sphagnum mosses and other bryophytes. Others have been heavily damaged by commercial peat extraction. Air and Water Pollution Compared with for example the flowering plants, lower plants ...
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MY CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
... the United States. Plants grow here on cool, shaded sphagnum and peat bogs in coastal areas. They grow in altitudes of up to 2800 metres ... be best cultivated in sphagnum or in a mix of sphagnum with peat. On hot summer days with temperatures above 20 degrees Celsius it ... got new pitcher leaves. The two  Cobra Lilies are growing in peat and sphagnum with Sarracenia plants In a mortartub. I  also  plant ...
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Fuchsias In Heat
... into the garden where they will decompose. For more decorative containers, he uses clay pots. Peat bogs are fast disappearing, endangering wildlife, so Kennard has switched to coir, a waste product from ...
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Potting Mixes for Certified Organic Production
... older, darker peat that has few large pores. Questions about Peat Harvesting The journal New Scientist reports that 455 billion tons of carbon are sequestered in peat bogs worldwide. That is equivalent to about 70 years of industrial emissions, making conservation of peat bogs ...
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Lecture 4 Links
... few sites with beautiful photos: Japanese Gardens of Kyoto and Arnie Malkamaki's Japanese Gardens. Peat bogs preserve organic material because the high acidity prevents microorganisms from breaking down organic molecules. Here ...
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Botanical
... to 5 feet. They produce c... Andromeda These hardy, evergreen shrubs are found wild in peat bogs in the Northern and Arctic regions. A. pol... Androsace These are Alpine plants found in ...
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Mini Bogs - Bog Garden Forum - GardenWeb
... Return to the Bog Garden Forum | Post a Follow-Up Mini Bogs clip this post email this post what is this? see most ... Post photos if you've got 'em. Follow-Up Postings: RE: Mini Bogs clip this post email this post what is this? see most ... original post. I was more specifically wondering about the designs for sphagnum peat mini-bogs for plants like carnivores (thus the question about drainage). That ...
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Mosses and Liverworts in Wales: Bogs
... various types of bogs or ombrotrophic mires, but two of the most important are raised bogs and blanket bogs. Raised bogs are so called because of the domed profile of the peat - highest at the ... with bogs - these are the Sphagnum mosses. They are of particular importance because of their moisture-holding properties, and because some of them are major contributors to the accumulation of peat. (More ...
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MY CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
... plant to reabsorb naturally released nutients. Most Sundews prefer peat or a mixture of peat and sand (4:1). The plants trive best ... , Russia and Asia. It occurs, often in vast numbers, in acid peat, bogs, usually rooting amongst sphagnum moss. In fact, the presence of this ... wet conditions, it is most often found on peat over which water continously seeps, on peat at the edge of bog streamlets, or ...
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