consider putting a live sphagnum moss that can tolerate the heat and sun of your area.
Learn how this plant grows and how to place it on moist ground at the edge of water.
It will take it a while to establish but if you get conditions correct it will take off and slowly,.... slowly create a floating acidic bog in a section of your pond that is suitable for all sorts of wildlife and acidic growing of native bog plants.
The most important thing is the water quality that filters into your pond from the river.
Sphagnum moss doesn't take well to polluted waters and will not survive any salt water.
It isn't cheap and you must buy it live. Good sources for living sphagnum moss would be some nurseries that sell carnivorous plants.
The acidic bog is commonly a old pond that has filled in with living sphagnum moss. As the living top layer grows the moss below decays into a moist peat, peat moss.
Sphagnum moss must always be moist and once its established will spread out into shallow water forming hummocks. Key word is slowly, but once it gets going it is wonderful. |
Here is a link that might be useful: sphagnum moss culture
