I always get a thrill when I see a well-lichened tree - there's something almost magical about them - I suppose it's that when I was a child the air pollution was so bad that the only place I saw them was in woods on deepest Dartmoor or West Wales.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yeah, I'd never seen them on trees when I was a kid either. I couldn't believe it when I moved here and saw them. But still nothing like the ones in Northumberland.
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I always get a thrill when I see a well-lichened tree - there's something almost magical about them - I suppose it's that when I was a child the air pollution was so bad that the only place I saw them was in woods on deepest Dartmoor or West Wales.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We get a lot of rain in West Wales!!
Yeah, I'd never seen them on trees when I was a kid either. I couldn't believe it when I moved here and saw them. But still nothing like the ones in Northumberland.
The best lichens I have seen are at Dawyck Botanic Gardens in Scotland. They have the cool cryptogamic bit too with mosses and funghi and the like.