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Pitcher plants in a fish pond bog filter?
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Pitcher plants in a fish pond bog filter?

I set up the photo about 3 years ago, I'm including it so you can see the carnivorous plants that I have.

I'm setting up a bog filter for my fish pond, and intended to move these to that bog filter by filling nursery pots with this soil (a blend of long-fiber sphagnum moss, coarse sand, and perlite) and sinking them into the pea gravel.

Do you think that this is OK, or will the water be too nutrient-rich for the plants?

** per the autobot's request, I'm in zone 7A and the pond bog filter will be in full sun.

u/csdude5 — 16 hours ago
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Thoughts on bulb / rhizome flowers in 5G containers

I have a ton of 5G nursery pots, 12" diameter and 12" deep. By "ton" I mean like 50.

I also have a flower garden that's filled with canna lilies, bearded irises, flag irises, Siberian irises, Louisian Gamecock irises, Easter lilies, and daylilies, which is pretty but a HUGE pain to dig everything up and divide all the time!

So I'm thinking about putting the bulbs and rhizomes in these unused pots instead of the ground, then heel the pots in. That would keep from spreading so hard, and I could just pull them out to divide instead of digging and figuring out what's what.

Do you see any problem with that idea?

If not, any guess on how many of each I could fit in a single pot? I know the cannas would be one rhizome per pot, they're huge. What about the others?

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