Fill the base with gravel, place the potted plants on top of the gravel and cover the surface with sphagnum moss or osmunda fibers. |
Most peat is made up of peat moss, or sphagnum, but it often includes other kinds of vegetation, such as trees and even animal remains. |
Without bogs we would lose astonishing plants like sundews, sphagnum mosses and cotton grass. |
Here we see the elusive and shy marsh gibbon, brachiating through the sphagnum swamps. |
A common soil mix is one part sphagnum peat moss or composted bark or compost, one part vermiculite or perlite, and one part sand. |
The typical habitat seems to be acidic fens and sphagnum bogs with open pools. |