| One book I have called Water Features for Small Gardens has a very small section on bog garden design but I can't recommend it soley for that section. It's a better general water feature info book. One of the best resources I have found is Botanique's web site. This info really "spells it out" as far as siting and construction. I went deeper than Botanique recommends, used old carpet as a pre-liner/root barrier, used packing peanuts as my inert porous filler on bottom and a 50/50 peat sand mix, everybody does it a bit differently. Gardening With Carnivores is ok, lots of pretty pictures, lots about hybridization, lots about cultural requirements, LOTS about starting a business (selling to the cut flower trade, weird), a small section on constructing a bog garden. My favorite boggy book is still Book of Swamp and Bog. No it doesn't tell you how to build a bog garden but it is an amazing resource for the ecology and interrelationships of eastern bogs and wetlands, and it's a fun to read, field guidey, nuturalist type book with great pen and ink illustrations. For a "true" CP native orchid type bog the Botanique info is what you are probably looking for. They also have wonderful (expensive but worth every penny) plants. Good luck! Have FUN! |