Mmathis
TurtleMommy
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A while back I started a thread because I thought some of my plants — specifically my swamp milkweed (Asclepius incarnata) — were suffering from a “nutrient” deficiency. https://www.gardenpondforum.com/thr...s-of-a-nutrient-deficiency.23401/#post-378096. The plants are 3-4 years old and are in my turtle-bog.
I placed some steel wool around the roots around that time, suspecting an iron deficiency but they seem to be doing worse: losing color, slow growth, no evidence of blooms. They have never bloomed in the years I’ve had them. They have been transplanted a couple of times, though, when I had to do bog reconstruction. They are in a bog setting and get full sun (at least 80% of the day).
According to what research I’ve been able to do, other than certain nutrients (which one would assume would be plentiful in a goldfish-fed bog), they don’t like being transplanted and can take a year or 2 to recover. They also like acidic, clay-type soil: my water is on the alkaline side and I have them planted in gravel (bog). They are supposed to do very well in water and like full sun. They are native to my area.
So, can’t decide what to do. I could find them another place to grow (which would be transplanting them again), but was hoping to keep them as bog plants. They don’t have to be bog plants, if they might be happier elsewhere.
This is a picture collage of a swamp mw that @addy1 posted, and what one of mine looks like currently.
I placed some steel wool around the roots around that time, suspecting an iron deficiency but they seem to be doing worse: losing color, slow growth, no evidence of blooms. They have never bloomed in the years I’ve had them. They have been transplanted a couple of times, though, when I had to do bog reconstruction. They are in a bog setting and get full sun (at least 80% of the day).
According to what research I’ve been able to do, other than certain nutrients (which one would assume would be plentiful in a goldfish-fed bog), they don’t like being transplanted and can take a year or 2 to recover. They also like acidic, clay-type soil: my water is on the alkaline side and I have them planted in gravel (bog). They are supposed to do very well in water and like full sun. They are native to my area.
So, can’t decide what to do. I could find them another place to grow (which would be transplanting them again), but was hoping to keep them as bog plants. They don’t have to be bog plants, if they might be happier elsewhere.
This is a picture collage of a swamp mw that @addy1 posted, and what one of mine looks like currently.