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Category Archives: Moss Gardening
This has been a story, and I have been the hero of it
A decade or so ago, my wife said to me: you should have a blog. Blogging was becoming popular, and ‘new media,’ and its practitioners, were darlings of “old” media; some bloggers had book deals, even movies. I laughed and … Continue reading
Posted in 'green, or Green?', DIY, Family Activity, Landscaping, Moss Gardening, Native Plants, Outdoor Living, Property Restrictions, Weather, Wildlife
Tagged animals, Arc of a Story, Blogging, Gardening, Landscaping, Lost, Mitigation, Moss, Moss garden, Mountain Beaver, Mountain Beavers, Nature, Politicologists, Property Restrictions, Wagon Train, Wildlife
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The Moss Garden at Mid-Mitigation
We have been on this property for two and a half years–exactly halfway through the five-year Mitigation Period–and I began my ‘Do Over’ in the clearing in February of 2011. Because of the naturally occurring native mosses here and there, … Continue reading
Lessons Were Learned, and…HEY! Wait a minute!
My little quadrant of this sphere is slowly tilting back toward the sun, and there is now enough demi-daylight (and if my wife is reading this: I went to high school with Demi Daylight!) when I get home from work … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, Family Activity, Landscaping, Moss Gardening, Native Plants, Outdoor Living, Property Restrictions
Tagged Bigleaf Maple, Buick Skylark, Chain-smoking grandma, Dirtle, Drumlin, Family Living, Horaisan, Key Bank Sucks!, Moss, Moss garden, mountain ash, Mountain Beaver, Nature, Outdoor Living room, Plants, Shoji house, Trillium, Vine maple, Woodshop
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A Requiem for Mr. Diggy
Way back when I bought my Practice Home, twenty years ago, I went to my local highfalutin’ nurseries and asked the experts: what are some plants that can tolerate full sun, full shade, lots of water, but also drought conditions? … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, Landscaping, Moss Gardening
Tagged Fiskars shovel, How to move a big rock, Mr. Diggy, Nature, Tool Review, Tools
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A Theme Emerges
The interior of my home feels like it is covered in a light film of percussively distributed sputum. Is it phlegm-uary already? Most of our Christmas decorations are piled on the dining room table, save for the Christmas tree, left … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, Moss Gardening, Outdoor Living, Weather
Tagged Dappled Sunlight, Morning Frost, Moss, Moss garden, Nature, outdoors, Paint Huffing, Pine Lake, Plants, Resolution, winter doldrums
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October, year over year…over year
All photos on the left taken by the Mitigation Planner, October 5, 2010. Center photos taken by me October 8, 2011. Photos on the right taken by me October 7, 2012.
Replacement, Addition, Enhancement, Again
In my experience, the adaptive response of most common nursery plants, when excessively pruned, is to die. In a previous life, my wife worked for a decade or so in the wholesale floral industry. When she expressed an interest in … Continue reading
Summer-y summary
Autumn is upon me, here in the nether region between I Don’t Want to Live Here Anymore and Now I Live Somewhere Else. When you exist in a shadow world such as this, you tread a fine line between the … Continue reading
Posted in DIY, Family Activity, Moss Gardening, Native Plants, Outdoor Living
Tagged Autumn, Dozuki Saw, Dream House, End of Summer, For Sale, Grievous self-injury, Moss, Native Plants, Nurse stick
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The Moss Garden at Midsummer
If someone had said to me in the fall of 2010, “These next two winters are going to be miserably cold, wet, and long. You should totally get out there and garden like crazy almost every day!’ I’d have been … Continue reading
Be very, very quiet…
Shhh. My moss is sleeping. Or dormant. Or semi-dormant. I don’t know. Who could rest with all the racket made by that bracken fern growing? And the truth is, I really don’t know what my moss is doing. It has … Continue reading
Posted in Landscaping, Moss Gardening, Native Plants
Tagged Bloedel Reserve, Bryophyte, irish moss, Moss, Moss garden, Moss gardening, Moss milkshake, Nature, nurse log, Nurse stick, Sexy curves
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