sphagnum

• “Potting mixes often contain sphagnum peat moss from bogs in Canada or Ireland.”

  Inflation Gets Right Down to the Real Nitty-Gritty « Isegoria

• “It is very surprising to find certain relict habitats related to the northern European freshwater ecosystems, such as sphagnum peat bogs, and birch (Betula pendula) copses.”

  Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests

• “I have an extremely vague recollection of Jerry in some interview or other mentioning "The Nursery Frieze," the Gorey work consisting of a long series of animals of indeterminate species, each uttering a single, odd word, like "sphagnum" ... "orrery" ... deadsongs. vue.168”

  The WELL: Ripple

• “Some porous material such as sphagnum moss or excelsior (as here) is put on the open bottom and the flat watered by allowing it to stand in a sink or tub for”

  Gardening Indoors and Under Glass A Practical Guide to the Planting, Care and Propagation of House Plants, and to the Construction and Management of Hotbed, Coldframe and Small Greenhouse

• “Azaleas require highly acidic soil - such as sphagnum peat moss amended with gypsum and perhaps limestone.”

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• “They are used commercially to treat seedlings before setting them in the field to reduce shock.] (6) Use no medium, such as sphagnum moss, for the roots because it is unnecessary and causes a lot of fuss with the plant inspectors.”

  4: Multipurpose trees

• “From pillows of sphagnum that over millennia have built up this extraordinary place, carmine glitter of round-leaved sundew attracts the eye, slowly digesting its captured insect-life.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon

• “But I certainly wasn't going to complain, especially when he retreated to the "prop range," the Botanic Garden greenhouse where hundreds of species were growing—the BBG boasts 1,600 species—to retrieve some Chilean sphagnum moss.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Where Expertise Blooms

• “Materials needed to assemble your terrarium include gravel for drainage; sphagnum moss to keep the soil from sifting into the drainage area; potting mix without fertilizer; and accessories like gravel, miniature animals — whatever items that add a touch of whimsy to your terrarium.”

  Terrarium Day at Sugar Creek « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog

• “A fern-grass-sedge pampa covers the summit areas of the larger islands where moisture is retained in temporary pools and sphagnum moss.”

  Galápagos National Park & Galápagos Marine Resources Reserve, Ecuador

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