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

beckygardener wrote:
I thought I was losing my mind. I had read some posts about my bog garden issue (thinking it was here on the Butterfly Forum). But I had posted it on the water garden forum as well. Just recently some nice folks posted some suggestions to me and one posted a great list of plants suitable to Florida climate. I was looking all over the Butterfly forum trying to find the posts. LOL! I finally went to "my info" to look at where I had posted recently. That's how I found it and discovered that it was different forum entirely. Oh boy! am I having a hard time keeping up with all these forums and threads! This forum is what I consider my "HOME FORUM" cause it is where I "hang out" all the time! LOL!
http://davesgarden.com/forums/t/680418/

This bog garden I am trying to fill has 10 sections in a row that are each 4' X 6' garden beds. I have the Canna as seen in the photo. And some ditch lilies that will possibly go in the same bed as these canna. I was thinking about doing 3 of the beds with that combo and some other plants as well. Maybe every 3rd bed I'd plant this grouping. I don't know? What do you think? Or should I just plant them all together in one or two beds?

The ditch lilies look like those picture in this web link:
http://davesgarden.com/pf/go/201/index.html

I've read that the ditch lilies can become invasive. I am thinking of putting a underground barrier around each bed I put them in to try to contain them to just the bed they are supposed to be in. Does anyone here have any experience growing them? I am wondering how deep the tuberous roots grow?

This message was edited Feb 7, 2007 7:46 PM