Insanely cool plants

[Hound Heaven]

I recently stumbled upon a twitter account that posts the most amazing photos of plants...https://x.com/TheFlowerShow
here are a few:

 

[GBBUDD]

nd the colors and patterns are insane yet i have no clue what they ae called but i do know it's called getting old i can't remember what they are called

 

[addy1]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[GaryMoz]

Are they bog plants? I'm starting to think about the planting now!

I need plants for a bog filter for the pond and also for a bog planting area.

 

[Hound Heaven]

Some of those may be, but there are lots of options for a bog. Let's see if I can name some that I have...hostas, hibiscus, white ginger, pitcher plants, sundew, Venus flytraps, Calla, Elephant ear, Pickerel weed, Louisiana Iris', Corkscrew Rush. I'm 4 yrs into it so this are the most productive that have lasted. There have been lots of failures, but I'm very satisfied with it now.

 

[bagsmom]

The Sonoran Carnival iris is wonderful!

 

[Hound Heaven]

The Sonoran Carnival iris is wonderful!

I KNOW!!! That's the one that caught my eye too

 

[YShahar]

A lot of common house plants make great marginal. One of my favorites is Spathiphyllum (peace lily). It grows really well in shade and blooms a lot more as a pond plant that it does indoors. It also grows much larger than it does in a pot. Here's one I planted last year that's putting on a lovely show right now (the leaves are a bit dusty):

I'm also using my bog for rooting cuttings, and have three large Brugmansias in there right now, one of which started flowering in there. The bog is also great for growing green onions and other edibles!

 

[GBBUDD]

Wait till year three when the bog has some locked fish waste. Then they will start to realy thrive

 

[j.w]

A lot of common house plants make great marginal. One of my favorites is Spathiphyllum (peace lily). It grows really well in shade and blooms a lot more as a pond plant that it does indoors. It also grows much larger than it does in a pot. Here's one I planted last year that's putting on a lovely show right now (the leaves are a bit dusty):

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I'm also using my bog for rooting cuttings, and have three large Brugmansias in there right now, one of which started flowering in there. The bog is also great for growing green onions and other edibles!

Do all those plants live year round there? Guess it never gets real cold there eh or too hot to kill them? They would not survive here through winter.

 

[hamstermann]

The bog is also great for growing green onions and other edibles!

Cool! That's what I want to try too. I'm excited to try melons and gourds. What else have you tried?

 

[YShahar]

Do all those plants live year round there? Guess it never gets real cold there eh or too hot to kill them? They would not survive here through winter.

These days, they live outdoors year round. Twenty-thirty years ago, I would have had to move the peace lilies indoors for a couple of months to escape the freezes. In those days, we got snow most winters and it would reliably dip below freezing during the coldest nights. But those days are past, alas.

So now, I just leave them in year-round. They don't do much over the winter, but in spring they start putting out new leaves. They'll flower all summer long and possibly into the beginning of winter.

I used to leave Callas out in winter even in the old days when we had snow. They tend to go dormant in summer and start putting out leaves in late winter. These days, I think they're a bit confused, as they started blooming in winter. But most of mine are already beginning to show signs of summer dormancy.

 

[YShahar]

Cool! That's what I want to try too. I'm excited to try melons and gourds. What else have you tried?

Well, I haven't tried tomatoes yet, though volunteer tomato plants are coming up in all my pots. Probably due to the seeds getting tossed in the composter. But those will be my next experiment, as I need to reclaim my pots from all these tomato plants.

I have rooted a couple of pineapples in the bog and in the main pond. Pretty much any cutting that will root in water seems to root much faster in the pond or the bog. The bog is convenient, since I can just stick a cutting near the waterfalls and know that the flow will prevent root rot.

I'll be following your experiments with melons and gourds!