What is on the garden this year - 2011

[Alex]

Looking good dude, I'll have to see what other mosses are around at the site!

As for the moss it is a strange one!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytrichum_commune

[ghostsword]

I really like it. How did you found it ? Was it buried, or just free floating?

I have some pieces on a wabi ball, some on a glass jar, some with the carniverous plants an some just on potting soil. I wonder it it would grow sumerged.


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[ghostsword]

Check this site out
http://www.mossacres.com/moss_for_terrariums.asp

I'm not the only moss lover it seems!

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[Alex]

I found roughly a metre from a drainage ditch, I only saw one circular 10" patch, but I bet I could find more!

[ghostsword]

I found roughly a metre from a drainage ditch, I only saw one circular 10" patch, but I bet I could find more!

This is how it looks like:

Untitled by GHOSTSWORD, on Flickr

[ghostsword]

Untitled by GHOSTSWORD, on Flickr

Staurogyne on the garden. looking sorry for herself, but should pick up once the weather becomes better. It has been on the garden for two weeks now, so not dead yet. :)

[Alex]

All looking good mate, just seen you link to the mos website, loving the moss chair lol   

[ghostsword]

Yep, moss is that amazing, I see so many different forms of moss on the London walls. My kid says I'm mad fir picking it up from the walls to see it up and close at home. I also have some moss on pots on the garden.


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[ghostsword]

Got some odd looking Hydrocotyle, really small leaves, the yellow ball you see is osmocote. :)

Hydrocotyle variegated "yellow and green" by GHOSTSWORD, on Flickr


Hydrocotyle variegated "yellow and green" by GHOSTSWORD, on Flickr

[Sparkyweasel]

My garden is like my house; it has Aponogetons in flower.

Aponogeton distachyos in the garden, A. crispus, A. ulvaceous and A. longiplumulosus in the house.
The A. distachyos above is a seedling from my older plant. No seeds yet on the indoor spp.

[ghostsword]

Lovely photo.. :)

Aponogeton's are amazing plants, often overlooked. :)

[frosties]

Stunning...

[ghostsword]

An update:

Emersed plants on a London Garden

[Robert21]

So for various reasons I'm container planting instead of raised bed gardening at the moment. Part of it is time and ability to get around in the garden.

Re-started this year with 'organic potting soil' (Jungle Growth?), got the worms just about going again, and leaf mould ... moulding on the front porch.

But reading through this site, both the container and non-container bits - am I just going to have to reboot every year and keep buying "potting soil"?

My thought was, run the plants through a cycle with new soil, amending as we get nearer to the end of the year and the 'built in' fertz start running out.

As the plants die off, chop up the dead vegetation, layer it on the soil, add some worm castings and/or other ferts, and put in new plants.

Not a lot of crop rotation you can do with the limited things I'm growing, but still ...