Companion plants for CP's

[D_muscipula]

These are all plants that I believe are capable of growing in bog like conditions.

If any of you would like to test this list, please go ahead.

Let's add to, refine, and make this professional looking.

I'll have to add pictures of each species, and alphabetize things later.

lofty ostrich fern
Cinnamon Fern
Hosta Vareties
Calapogon orchids
Platathera intergrilabia
Cranbery
Bog blueberry
Lingonberry
Cloudberry
Iris ensata
Lobelia Cardinalis
P. japonica
Primula denticulata
P. Vialii

Larix laricina (tamarack larch)
Polytrichum ssp. mosses
Pogonia ophioglossoides - rose Pogonia orchid

 

[petmantis]

I've seen Larix laricina (tamarack larch) growing everywhere in Sphagnum bogs... You can also add Polytrichum ssp. mosses, those are fairly common as well.

Don't forget Pogonia ophioglossoides - rose Pogonia orchid...

 

[D_muscipula]

Come on guys! Let's get this rolling. :grin:

 

[dionae]

Blueberry(Vaccinium) can be grown in bog like conditions also.

 

[Exo]

Imperata cylindrica (Japanese bloodgrass) will grow in a bog...rather invasively I might add.

 

[nya]

Spiranthes cernua will grow in bogs... I think...?

 

[MH1]

Also, Heather, Cotton-grass, Windberries, Bilberries, Bracken, Marsh Marigold. These all grow in our moorland-bog areas. Possibly things like Azaleas too- I know they need ericacious compost, so probably.

 

[Clue]

Most tropical ferns, bromeliads, and orchids grow quite well with highland or lowland Nepenthes species. Carex and other reeds are great Aldrovanda and aquatic Utricularia companions, as well as water lilies and other pond plants.

 

[Wire Man]

Oh, I know this one!

-Xyris (yellow eyed grass)
-sweet bay magnolia
-Cypripedium
-Asclepias (milkweeds)
-Sabatia sp.
-Smilax laurifolia (I don't suggest this one, it get big and painful)
-orange milkwort
-Eriocaulon
-Lachnocaulon
-toothache grass
-Lobelia nutelii
-Lycopodium
-cinnamon fern
-Sphagnum (of course)

 

[Steve Booth]

If you want a true giant and architectural plant try Gunnera mantica. It will grow enormous in a short space of time.
Cheers
Steve