I'm harvesting rock for my water garden. I like the rocks with the lichens on them the most. Is there a way to get them to grow on your rocks? I like the moss too?
Damp and shady conditions for moss, as FG says, clean air for lichen, plus a little moisture. I have both in my shady woodland areas. If they are destined for a sunny location you can’t sustain moss (and you need some to start with, not sure you can spontaneously generate it). Some say live yoghurt bacteria encourages growth, but I know people that have tried it and it didn’t work! Seem to recall you have a big spread near a lake James, is that right or am I confusing you with someone else?
Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
Different lichens grow in different locations too - some at high altitude in drier scree, some in damper locations nearer sea level. Damp and shade for moss - generally, although it also grows in sunnier spots of they're damp. I have loads
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Lichen will arrive all by themselves if the air is sufficiently clean. Just wait for them; it's pretty similar to waiting for a tree to grow. It seems slow, but it happens. It's a joy.
Wasn't he the one with the water-skiiing / fishing lake in the background of the photo of his back-garden Capability Brown landscaped estate the other day?
F Smile, it confuses people.
“Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
The problem may be that when the rocks are moved the conditions they’re placed in may not be the s as me as those they come from, so any lichens already on the rocks will die. 😢 They don’t ‘transplant’ easily and moving them can destroy them.
When I built the roads on my property the dozer unearthed a lot of these red sandstone rocks. Over the years some have developed moss and lichens. I have just been picking them up with the tractor. I used to think the color was ugly and never did anything with them.but they are growing on me and I have decided they look much better than the man made rocks.. The other benefit is that they are free except for the work of moving them.
on them the most. Is there a way to get them to grow on your rocks? I like the moss too?
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I hope it's on your own property.
Lichens need clean air to grow.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Damp and shade for moss - generally, although it also grows in sunnier spots of they're damp. I have loads
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Wasn't he the one with the water-skiiing / fishing lake in the background of the photo of his back-garden Capability Brown landscaped estate the other day?
F
Smile, it confuses people.
Somebody tried painting an entire storey of their house with remixed-poo-and-things on an episode of Grand Designs to get lichen.
And that did not work either
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04xwq41
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.