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Retention pond bottoms plant recommendation?
We're working on an apartment complex that has 3 storm water retention
ponds. The bottoms of these ponds will be submerged or at least boggy during the wet part of the year, and during the summer, could be very dry. There is an irrigation system that can be used to keep vegetation growing. Combined area is close to an acre. My question is, does anybody have recommendations for perennial plants that might survive under these conditions? Am thinking about Acorus or Iris or other things that are typically considered bog plants. We've already rotted one round of Bermuda sod, and we need an alternative. Zone 9, southeast. |
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Retention pond bottoms plant recommendation?
I am not sure exactly what will work in zone 9 but I have experience
with a similar situation, I live in a "winter spring" that is swamp in winter/spring and a desert in the summer/fall....zone 6b. Siberian iris will work, lysmachia, Ascelepia incarnata (swamp milkweed), iron weed, elderberry bushes, Chelone obliqua (turtlehead, or maybe it is false turtlehead), arrowood viburnum, bee balm, daylilies, look for things that grow in the natural swamps in the area and plant them in the fall...... ones that are showy in the spring often go dormant in the summer, which could allow them to survive the summer! Good luck! "di" wrote in message ... We're working on an apartment complex that has 3 storm water retention ponds. The bottoms of these ponds will be submerged or at least boggy during the wet part of the year, and during the summer, could be very dry. There is an irrigation system that can be used to keep vegetation growing. Combined area is close to an acre. My question is, does anybody have recommendations for perennial plants that might survive under these conditions? Am thinking about Acorus or Iris or other things that are typically considered bog plants. We've already rotted one round of Bermuda sod, and we need an alternative. Zone 9, southeast. |
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Retention pond bottoms plant recommendation?
"di" wrote:
We're working on an apartment complex that has 3 storm water retention ponds. The bottoms of these ponds will be submerged or at least boggy during the wet part of the year, and during the summer, could be very dry. There is an irrigation system that can be used to keep vegetation growing. Combined area is close to an acre. My question is, does anybody have recommendations for perennial plants that might survive under these conditions? Am thinking about Acorus or Iris or other things that are typically considered bog plants. We've already rotted one round of Bermuda sod, and we need an alternative. Zone 9, southeast. What native plants grow in the occasionally flooded river bottoms and other flood plains near you? They would be the logical plants to use ... bog plants require CONSTANT moisture and are otherwise rather finicky. And what is growing in other retention basins locally? Tsu -- To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection. - Jules Henri Poincaré |
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Retention pond bottoms plant recommendation?
"Valkyrie" wrote... "lois" wrote ... [...] Thank you all - this is good advice to talk to the administrators of the local code department (the ones we're trying to please). I should have thought of that - I'm showing my inexperience! Thanks again. |
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