Bog gardens are beneficial landscape features that create a safe habitat for local wildlife, and are a low-maintenance alternative to traditional gardens. They also help you to take advantage of a ...
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To keep water-loving plants happy, try making a simple bog garden. Putting your bog near a pond will naturally integrate it into your landscape. Or, plan one in place of a pond. Dress it up by placing ...
You know when you are in a healthy peatland because it is soggy. The ground quakes when you walk on it and a misstep fills your boots with a brown cold liquor. It is no coincidence that the Irish word ...
"There is a strange power in bog water which prevents decay," noted an 1837 Danish almanac. "Bodies have been found which must have lain in bogs for more than a thousand years, but which, though ...
GORDON GREEN, INVENTOR OF BOG SNORKELING, strips down to his shorts, pulls on blue overalls and rubber boots, and climbs down into the muddy water of an overgrown drainage ditch. Almost at once, the ...