What Can You Plant In A Bog Garden?

Bog gardens are designed for plants which like their roots to stay very moist but not waterlogged as with plants which actually grow in ponds and streams. One of the largest and most stunning bog plants is Gunnera manicata. This looks like  a vast rhubarb plant with large wavy edged leaves up to 1.8m across. The stalks and undersides of the leaves sprout bristly hairs and the plant produces an alien-like flower which spikes up in summer like a giant bottlebrush. Astilbes are also ideal and offer a long flowering period and many colours with delicate feathery flowering heads. Bugles (Ajuga reptans) offer good creeping ground cover and their deep blue flower spikes are very attractive in summer. Day lilies (hemerocallis) grow quite happily in normal herbaceous borders but they too love the damp. Their blossoms only last one day and few people know that their buds are edible.

Hello,  Don't forget ferns!  There is a fern called "tatting" that I find very interesting.  Also, water iris do well in a bog garden as does beebalm and oat grass.