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Rock harvesting

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  • MolamolaMolamola Posts: 105
    @stephentame I have that book too :) She writes so poetically. And there is a chapter about moss landscaping that reads almost like a murder mystery. 
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593

  • Ferdinand2000Ferdinand2000 Posts: 537
    Biglad said:
    I'd happily donate all the moss in my back garden to a good home ;)
    When I got te last 30 apples from my neighbour’s tree, it turned out the windfalls were excellent due to the thickness of the moss in their lawn  :) .
    “Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    I love apples
  • JoeXJoeX Posts: 1,783
    I studied lichen when I was 17, fat lot of good it did me and my coursework garnered only a miserable D and that I could establish no relationship between light levels and where lichen grew or how prolific it was.

    Lichen is an amazing symbiotic form of life, but gardening it?  Not on a human lifespan.
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Wow!
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Did you learn anything?
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    At our local stone dealer rocks with lichen cost about 20% more money
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited November 2020
    I spend time and money trying to remove lichen and moss from our Bath stone faced walling (a creamy colour). I hate lichen on my walls/paving, especially the black kind. I do like in on rocks out in the wild though. 

    I love seeing your pics of your garden/estate @jamesholt, so different to ours, take no notice of the jealous snide remarks.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    These were the projects for this weekend.The stone i bought from a quarry an hour north of here.  Thought it was going to break my trailer but we made it.  I'm learning tial and error on how best to make a pathway.  My wife likes desert plants.  
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