Replacement for Yellow Flag Iris?

I have a small ( 6x4) bog. Late fall I dug out and tossed all the yellow flag. Left is one nice clump of blue flag. The yellow flag just got out of control. It had crowded the entire bog. This 2 ft deep bog is bottom watered through a permanent irrigation pipe. There is no standing water for any long period of time but it does stay wet to the touch. It is 50% peat and 50% sandy soil. What would be a good tall stately replacement for the flag? It is full sun. I might just dig the whole thing up again (arrrrg) and put in a big rubbermaid tub for a lotus. When I originally put it in this little bog I apparently put a couple too many holes in the plastic liner and now the darn thing drains a little too well. Dumb, I know.

http://www.nearctica.com/flowers/iton/iris/Iversi.htm

Tall plants that I would suggest are papyrus, pickel reed, fiber optic grass, cats tail even EE.

Do you like any of these?

Jeri

Gosh folks, I like em all. Equil, as always educating me. Jeri what is EE? For this planting situation the papyrus would look the best but I like the look of the fiber optic grass. And, the iris is intriguing. Soooooo I am thinkig of expanding the little bog into something more generous. Might even try some pitcher plants if they will withstand our city water here. Kh is 1. The city softens it but the Ph is 9 when it somes out of the pipe and drops to 7.6 in 24 hours. Weird I know, but that is what they do here. (Have a planted tropical fish tank that is maintained Ph 6.5 for Tetras, so I have had some conversations with the lab at the city water treatment plant. Nice helpful folk.) As I have an underground sprinkler system throughout the yard and gardens, overhead watering from city water is unadvoidable. Luckily the soil Ph is a stable 6.5.

(The delayed response was due to foot surgery. Had a big ole ugly bunion sawed off, big toe and little toe straightened out. Got a pin in my foot and a butt ugly shoe. I will be place kicking a football and ready to put my foot on a shovel by end of March. Bunions are so ugly and such "old people stuff". Yuck.The only thing it has been good for is getting waited on hand & foot. All I have to do is threaten to take off the bandages and show them the pin sticking out of the foot. Works every time.)

snapple45, Sorry for the shorthand. I must have been tired. EE is elephant ears. They have so many different varieties that I'm sure one would work for you. I also meant to tell you they have a dwarf papyrus that I like alot.

Jeri

Ahhah! Another fine choice. The EE's. This is full sun. Would they work? I'll check out the plant files. Hope so because they would look spectacular.
Thanks for your suggestions. I am definitely going to work the EE's in somewhere.

jeri11, I am going for EE 'Black Runner'.

Equil, in the new bog I will use the native flag iris and try a couple of pitcher plants.

Snapple, hope the foot is doing well and healing for you. I can just see you with a grin on your face reaching for that bandage to show off your pin! LOL You be good now and just let it heal like it should......put the time to good use reading all of the garden catalogs coming in the mail......... :^)

Could be too much of a good thing tetleytuna! Just went out online and orderd plants. Found a nice source with a DG good rating for a spetacular EE. I HAVE to stay off it or it wont heal right so I am told. I might have to surrender the credit card for my own safety though. I'm gonna keep the pin as a souvengier.

snapple45, I'm so glad I was able to help. To prevent what happened to you with the iris I would pot them up and then place them in your bog. That good fertile bog will do the same thing with the elephant ears. You're in zone 5 so it would be easy to pull the pot out and put them up for the winter also.

I'm sorry to hear about your foot but you were smart to have it done now so when spring arrives you'll be ready to go.

Jeri

You have such a way with words, "Had a big ole ugly bunion sawed off". Look up Spiranthes cernua var. odorata to toss in the mix as well as Calopogon tuberosus, Lachnocaulon anceps, Ruellia humilis, and Caltha palustris. Consider a Sarracenia hybrid or named cultivar for the pH conditions you described otherwise I'm afraid you'll be tossing money to the bog gods.

Grumble, grumble, grumble, blankety blank Latin names, Equil and her blankety blank mental encyclopedia of plants, digging around the internet finding what the heck she has gotten me interested in now, grumble, gumble grumble. Well, there is a bright side. I'm sure not bored. I think the Percocet just kicked in. Wanna see my pin?

Percocet, you poor thing. Nope, don't wanna see your pin and DO NOT e-mail me photos of your pin because I don't do photos of friends in pain well. Blood and guts is out of my league... upsets my stomach but since you're on percocet and evidently cross eyed and drooling from pain....

Spiranthes cernua var. odorata
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Spiranthes+cernua+var.+odorata+&btnG=Search+Images

Calopogon tuberosus
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=Calopogon+tuberosus&btnG=Search

Lachnocaulon anceps (nice fillers for a bog)
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=Lachnocaulon+anceps

Ruellia humilis
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=Ruellia+humilis

Caltha palustris
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=Caltha+palustris

Nice assortment in height and texture as well as color represented above. You should probably toss in a few ferns and Thelypteris palustris comes to mind. There there there... I forgot you are on the injured list so here's a link to photos of that-
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&q=Thelypteris+palustris&btnG=Search

I'd go for common Sarracenia such as 'Ladies in Waiting' or 'Dixie Lace' and any hybrid including S. flava might work. Club Moss hardy to your area would be great too. Love the way that weaves in and out of plantings.