It's Not Work, It's Gardening!: moss

Showing posts with label moss. Show all posts

Showing posts with label moss. Show all posts

Rockwoods Reservation

>> Wednesday, March 11, 2015 – discovery, lichen, moss, travel, trees, winter

We seem to have rather abruptly transitioned into spring here in the St. Louis area, and last weekend my wife and I decided to go for a hike -- but where? We knew that Queeny Park would be packed, as would the nearby bike trail, so we had to think a bit. Castlewood? We've been there many times. Shaw Nature Reserve? Same there -- have visited quite often. What about Rockwoods? Neither of us has ever been there, so it was decided!

Rockwoods Reservation is an 1880-acre conservation area on the western edge of the St. Louis metro area. We decided to take the long way there, driving down 44 until we hit 109 -- that stretch of Interstate 44 is really quite beautiful at almost any time of year -- and about 30 minutes later we reached the conservation area.

A waste of good moss

>> Friday, January 9, 2015 – moss

You know I love moss, right? I post about it a few times every year -- so soft, green, lush. Probably the main reason that I like it so much is you really have to look at it closely in order to appreciate it...

...and I'm a big fan of getting up close to everything in the garden. This moss is not in the garden though, and it isn't long for this world.

Portland: Japanese Garden (part 1)

>> Wednesday, August 6, 2014 – foliage, moss, travel

Last month during the Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland, I excused myself from the planned tour for the day (Saturday) and spent the time sightseeing with my wife instead. It turns out that we went to a few of the same places where the bloggers would be touring, but as we had no schedule we could stroll at our own pace.

Saturday morning we headed to the Portland Japanese Garden, and since I took so many photos there, I'm breaking them up into two posts. In addition I've spent a lot of time trying to find the narrative for this post but I don't know that there's much to be said, so after a brief intro I'll let the photos do the talking.

Timber Press, Lan Su Garden

>> Thursday, July 17, 2014 – book, moss, travel, water

The first full day of the recent Garden Bloggers Fling in Portland, Oregon started with an 8 AM walk from the hotel to the offices of Timber Press, publishers of so many fantastic gardening books.

You won't see any photos of the walk over there, or images of the building or offices themselves from me as I could say I'm usually more interested in the experience itself than documenting every aspect of it. (I could say that, but maybe I just get lazy sometimes?)

Tiny new garden

>> Friday, November 1, 2013 – moss

Last weekend when I was planting the sale plants that I had just bought, I noticed that one of the Clematis had a few extra plants in the pot.

Not the typical weeds either -- these were healthy mosses and liverworts!

Texture

>> Monday, June 17, 2013 – lichen, moss, texture

It rained again this weekend (I'll gladly give up some weekend garden time if this continues throughout the summer!) so I was just poking around with my camera when I heard a few barred owls calling down the street.

I went to try and get a glimpse of them (I didn't) and on the walk back I noticed my neighbor's ash tree has a fantastic covering of moss and lichen, and I couldn't resist taking lots of photos.

It's moss time

>> Thursday, February 21, 2013 – macro, moss

I gave you warning a few weeks back: it's moss season here, and I cannot resist getting down on the ground for some mossy macro shots.

Most of this lovely green stuff will be dormant and dry by July, so I take advantage while I can.

Start of moss season

>> Sunday, January 13, 2013 – moss

I know there are places where moss grows year-round or almost so, where it actually becomes a nuisance, just another "weed". Around here though winter marks the start of what I call "moss season", because under the snow (sometimes) and cold damp those patches of moss are starting to come into their own.

I was reminded of this earlier this week on my walk. Although most people have mossy spots somewhere in their yards, there are a couple of houses on my normal walk route that have what most would consider to be moss problems. I think they're wonderful, and here's an early look at one of them.

Nothing in particular

>> Friday, April 13, 2012 – bees, fruit, moss, vines, weeds

I started collecting photos a week ago for a post I was going to call "emergence" -- it was going to show all of the things that are bursting out in my garden, out of the soil, out of the branches of deciduous trees.

The problem is, most of the plants emerged weeks ago, so I wasn't able to find enough for a full post. So my photos sat and are now completely outdated. I instead decided to just post about nothing in particular. I do this every once in a while.

It's moss time!

>> Monday, January 30, 2012 – moss

I told you, when I see moss I just have to stop and look. If my camera is nearby I need to photograph too.

I looked around the yard for examples, and I found plenty. I'm not sure what it is about moss, but I just love it!

Rock, moss, moss, moss

>> Friday, January 27, 2012 – moss

Last weekend when I visited the large grove of bamboo near my house, I was excited. Not only because I had found a "walk-through" grove of bamboo nearby, but I also found something else that I'm always interested in: big rocks.

Not only that, but the rocks had some nice moss growing on and around them, and I love moss too!

Missouri Botanical Garden, part 3

>> Saturday, October 15, 2011 – japanese maple, moss, panorama, shrubs, trees, water

Today I continue my recent visit to the Missouri Botanical Garden. Part 1 is here and part 2 is here in case you missed them.

Today's post is all about the Japanese garden, one of the jewels of the park for sure. Let's jump right in.

Missouri Botanical Garden, part 2

>> Friday, October 14, 2011 – moss, sedum, trees

Yesterday I posted part 1 of my visit to the Missouri Botanical Garden. Today I continue on where I left off. I'm nearing the southeast corner of The Garden now, where there are more houses (that were once private residences and now serve various purposes), and some formal gardens.

This one is half-empty in preparation for the winter, but it's drawing me in anyway. I'm not a big fan of formal gardens like this, but if I'm not mistaken that is a "sea" of sedum burning my retinas with its yellowness, and I love sedum so just have to take a closer look.

Sedum, bamboo, thyme, and moss

>> Friday, March 25, 2011 – bamboo, moss, sedum, thyme

Sometimes my posts have focus. A topic. Maybe they document a project. Maybe they have a central theme. Other times my posts do not. They're collections of non-connected mini-topics. Sort of a jumble of some small things I've noticed recently that don't lend themselves to a full post.

A catch-up day. Filed under "miscellaneous". Today's post is one of those.

Tiny garden discovered, tiny garden maintained

>> Monday, February 21, 2011 – dandelions, moss, sedum, weeds

I've got a lot of different planting beds in my suburban garden: veggie beds, perennial beds, plantings of bamboo, huge ornamental grasses. Many of them are pretty large beds, but I've got some small areas too, like the planting pockets around the stream. My smallest "garden" though has to be the cracks between stones of my flagstone patios. I've never really thought about them as a garden until recently -- they've just been the gaps between the stones before.

Which is a strange oversight on my part, because I've put much effort into making these crevices more than just something to hopefully not trip on. I've planted mosses, thymes, and most recently sedum in the hope of softening and greening up these hard stretches of rock.

Favorite photos of 2010

>> Friday, December 31, 2010 – bees, butterflies, cats, deer, flowers, frost, kittens, moles, moss, snow, spiderweb, sunrise, super-whitey, trees

I thought I'd finish off the year with a look at some of my favorite photos from 2010. Since I took a lot of photos this past year -- over 6000! -- I knew I'd need some rules when choosing or else I'd end up with 100 photos in this post. So I made two rules: 1) the photo must be related to the garden 2) I had to choose exactly two photos from each month.

It was pretty difficult to find two good photos from January and February (before I started this blog), and it was even harder to pick only two images from May, June, July and a couple of other months, but I stuck to it. Most of these photos have appeared in the blog, but some may have not.

Edit: I missed a month and had some mislabeled -- fixed now.

Various Unrelated Observations

>> Saturday, June 12, 2010 – bamboo, fungus, moss, woodpecker

Often times when I'm taking photos in the garden I see something that doesn't lend itself to an entire post. Maybe it's something I do that doesn't require more than a photo or two, and a couple of sentences.

I've collected several of these recently, so today I'm going to just group them all together. Hope you find some of them to be interesting.

A Garden Visit

>> Tuesday, June 8, 2010 – flowers, moss, water

I spent the weekend in Chicago with my sister and her family. Early Sunday morning as I headed out the back door with my camera my sister said "you're not going to find anything to photograph in our yard!"

Like most houses in suburban metropolitan areas, the yards are designed to be used by kids (at one time or another). That means they have a lot of lawn area and beds for other plants are minimal, non-existent, forgotten and neglected, or frequently trampled.

Moss!

>> Saturday, March 27, 2010 – moss

Recently I've become a big fan of moss. I don't know much about it, and until a couple years ago it was always just something that grew in certain places in my lawn.

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