Floating gardens to grow difficult plants the easy way

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A simple way to place a netting is to stick 4 to 6 thin pipes (metal, plastic or bamboo)into the ground.
Cut some half-rings out of bracing wire (I use 3,8 mm) and stick it in the tubes
This is an easy framework for a netting.
I fix it at three sides with some hooks (metal or sticks from the hedge)
The front part is weighed down with some metal rod for easy access.

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Trillium grandiflorum flowers now on two of the rafts. Cypripedium reginae has recovered from the dividing.
I have cross-pollinated all of them.
Last year some mouse or so  stole the fruits. But the seedlings from the year before have already their second leaf.

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From Cypripedium acaule is one back.

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Reginae still going strong after the division.

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My latest addition to the floating gardens are some D.majalis. Two groups living together with some pieces C.reginae.

I hope they will cope with the conditions. It is 40 days ago since I became them.

Cuttings from Daphne tangutica from last autumn lived till last week. As i removed them since they lost their leafs, there was no more roots visible.

Next time I use some of the few  calciferous islands I have now.