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[Hoy]

Trond, the water table is just below the surface where the Sarracenia grow so the picture is deceiving!

Then I have to construct a place with high water table

[Howey]

Todd - when I visited St. John's in Newfoundland for a recent NARGs Annual meeting there, some of the spots we visited seemed just covered with Sarracenia purpurea - also Kalmia.  Just amazing!  Fran

Frances Howey
London, Ontario, Canada
Zone 5b

[Spiegel]

Yes, Anne, every time we hike there!  That particular slope in the photo is pretty high up and often not in bloom until mid to late August.

What do you typically see in those screes?

[RickR]

Trond, the water table is just below the surface where the Sarracenia grow so the picture is deceiving!

Then I have to construct a place with high water table

In Minnesota, Sarracenia is most often found in relatively young bogs that still have a lot of bounce potential nearer to the edge of lakes.

[Lori S.]

Yes, Anne, every time we hike there!  That particular slope in the photo is pretty high up and often not in bloom until mid to late August.

What do you typically see in those screes?

Anne, probably the best way I can answer is to link to some of these hike reports:
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=416.msg4041#msg4041
http://nargs.org/smf/index.php?topic=384.msg3763#msg3763

[Lori S.]

In Minnesota, Sarracenia is most often found in relatively young bogs that still have a lot of bounce potential nearer to the edge of lakes.

Ha, muskeg areas are kind of fun to walk around in, aren't they?  So long as you're wearing chest waders... and don't stand around in the same spot for too long! 

[Lori S.]

This is a really lousy picture (sorry) but I was kind of fascinated by the size comparison between an Erigeron aureus... which was probably less than 2" tall... but absolutely hulking over a miniscule Erigeron humilis!  

 
Anne, these plants are also from that same scree slope.

[Hoy]

In Minnesota, Sarracenia is most often found in relatively young bogs that still have a lot of bounce potential nearer to the edge of lakes.

Ha, muskeg areas are kind of fun to walk around in, aren't they?  So long as you're wearing chest waders... and don't stand around in the same spot for too long! 

Or with sandals! Which drain the water quickly!

This is a really lousy picture (sorry) but I was kind of fascinated by the size comparison between an Erigeron aureus... which was probably less than 2" tall... but absolutely hulking over a miniscule Erigeron humilis! 
 

I need my loupe

[RickR]

Ha, muskeg areas are kind of fun to walk around in, aren't they?  So long as you're wearing chest waders... and don't stand around in the same spot for too long! 

Depending on what I am doing, I will just go barefoot, wear some tenners I don't mind getting wet, or use snowshoes.  And yes, never stand in one place too long!

[Lori S.]

I guess the water must be a lot warmer in Minnesota and Norway... 

Campanula topaliana:

[Hoy]

I guess the water must be a lot warmer in Minnesota and Norway... 

Yes, of course, as you can see here. It's hot even in winter:
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.7910419

PS A beutiful bellflower! I choose that one to crabs

[externmed]

Arisaema ringens berries.  Within 2 months we may experience -15F; betting this is the last fresh flower of the season.  Erigeron compositus in a very sandy, raised bed with some happy looking very xeric moss; which spreads quite rapidly but remains shorter than 3mm.
Charles Swanson NE MA USA z6a +/-

[externmed]

Erigeron compositus and Arisaema ringens berries.
Charles Swanson MA USA

[McDonough]

Erigeron compositus and Arisaema ringens berries.
Charles Swanson MA USA

Wow, just look at that fat ear of red corn  Arisaema seed is beautiful.  Typically when I find them ripe like this, I'll check to see whether the seeds are ready to drop off when handled, and sow the seed directly in the garden by scratching them in.  A couple years ago, I had my first seed set on Arisaema heterophyllum, but set seed was so late, that I ended up chopping through a deep layer of snow and ice mid winter to find the seed head, sowed the seed indoors, and it came up!  

The last plant standing in my garden is self-sown seedling from Allium thunbergii 'Ozawa' that grows much taller and this year flowered very late,

[Lori S.]

The Arisaema seed is really gorgeous!

An alpine scene from northern Banff N.P.: