DaisyI said:I have always grown mine in water pots - no drainage holes. My inground bog has pool liner under it. Keep the crowns above the water level. If I was using saucers, I would make the saucers as deep as possible. They are bog plants - bogs are wet places.
Thanks. I like the idea of water pots too. Pot and saucer all rolled into one. I guess my hesitance to just submerge the entire container comes from having that accidentally happen when using regular potting soils. I understand that peat won't putrify if continuously submerged.
The only "bog" plants I currently grow are bulbs, Crinum calyptratum. They're happy in unamended garden dirt in a no-hole 2 gallon nursery pot, kept topped off with water.
I have read lots of advice to use about 30% perlite mixed in the peat. Is there any benefit to that? (other than the obvious conservation of peat) I don't see any perlite in my pots from California Carnivores, and the Sarracenia and Dionaea at Berkeley Indoor Gardens are growing happily in a sand/peat mix.
I saw your bog garden pictures in another thread. Very nice! How deep is your pond liner, and what's your soil mix?
