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Plants for boggy/clay like soil

nancymae · 2018-03-26 10:21:56

Hi, Our house is built on an old mining area. Our soil is boggy in parts and quite hard thick clay like soil. I grew a beautiful hydrangea in a pot last year and then moved it over into the garden and it died within days which was very annoying. I want to dig up the side on the garden and plant shrub like plants down the…

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DampGardenMan Posts: 1,054

March 2018

Shrubs - dogwood seems to like boggy conditions. And of course willows.

If you don't mind non-native I rather like swamp cypresses.

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