Dare to be different

When you have to scrape mosses and lichens off your roof annually to prevent leaks (they prize the tiles up) you might believe me, jess. Meanwhile, worry on. It won't make any difference.

My whole bottom lawn aka wild habitat area is moss and nothing else apart from the odd fritillary last year .
I wondered if in fact she was sitting behind a moss covered boulder and this was clever photography?

Perhaps we ought to have a similar GN photo competition?
In the summer I hastily add!

bags the birds pick all the moss off my roman tiled roof and distribute it all over my newly swept patio area!

Some of ours falls off onto the terrace, and I expect some of it is used by birds for their nests, but there's still a lot. There is a bay window roofed with slate just below my bedroom window. TheMosses and lichens are very pretty. DD1 was eyeing them up for dyeing purposes last time she was here, especially looking for crottle.

She's wellcome to my bottom lawn if she removes it!

Galen did you plant the fritillary yourself or are they random wild ones. I love them but can't grow them for love nor money.

We planted about 50 bulbs. Be interesting to see if they come up again this year. I did have two in the garden before that I didn't plant and I've been here 35 years. Might get the garden sorted one day!

I think you have to plant them sideways on sand. Or something like that. Being a fan of Mackintosh I love fritillaries.

They seemed to like it last year in what is not a lawn, more of a moss plot! Interspersed with fruit trees

Will try that thanks Tegan. I've previously bought fritillary in bulb form and flowering in pots from garden centres I plant them and that's the last I see of them. I think they are really pretty.

I love the chap in the cow parsley. He's got attitude!

Ha ha! I am going mainly for the rhubarb look this Spring!

I love the face of the woman wearing the twig head-wreath. She looks very compassionate, with a touch of humour.

butty the website heading says the most depressing something or other!! [confused as to why u would want to visit this site emotion}

Jess; going back a bit here but isn't The Burren wonderful? I didn't go at the best time of year [early May] but found it beautiful [far more strunning than The Ring of Kerry, which we did another year; bit of a yawnfest that was]. Kept stumbling over monastic settlements as well. So need to go back to Oirland again. My favourite pub, the Tir na nOg is calling me .