Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Need ideas for a long bog garden, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
This is the far right section of my bog garden. Each section is 6' long and there are 10 sections plus the short little section next to the end of this side of the backyard corner.

A person on another forum from another website sent me 3 nice sized canna tubers. It is supposed to have the smaller red flowers. There were no leaves on any of them when she shipped them to me about 2 1/2 months ago. The largest tuber/rhinzone is seen here in the pot next to one of my ponds. Notice how large the leaves are after such a short time. In the pond on one of the ledges is a Bacopa (which is supposed to be a host plant for the White Peacock Butterflies). I haven't seen anything eating it, though I do have several WPs in my yard all the time. The pond also has 4 hardy waterlilies in it, but they don't seem to be taking off like my tropical waterlilies in the other pond. (Perhaps they are dying for some reason .... they were HD waterlilies and I don't always have luck with HD plants.) And the black looking (dead) stalk is a red root plant. It is sending up new shoots from the root ball, but don't know if you can see them in this photo. It is kind of like a water reed plant. It gets narrow tall leaves and looks nice in the pond to give it a tropical water garden effect. It also sends up a single stem with a cluster of pale yellow flowers that later become the seeds. The bees like it! Perhaps the butterflies, too. Don't know.