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A delightful book that encourages gardeners to pay closer attention to the subtle beauty of miniature landscapes and introduces one of the glories of Japanese gardens into American designs. The author writes entertainingly of mosses on rocks and walls, in containers, and as a lush ground cover, and he presents a gallery of his favorite moss species.
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Moss Gardening : Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures
author
:
Schenk, George.
publisher
:
Timber Press, Inc.
isbn10 | asin
:
0881923702
print isbn13
:
9780881923704
ebook isbn13
:
9780585348506
language
:
English
subject
Moss gardening, Mosses.
publication date
:
1997
lcc
:
SB433.55.S3 1997eb
ddc
:
635.9/36
subject
:
Moss gardening, Mosses.
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Moss Gardening
Including Lichens, Liverworts, and Other Miniatures
George Schenk
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Copyright 1997 by Timber Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
Fifth printing 1999
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Schenk, George. Moss gardening: including lichens, liverworts, and other miniatures/George Schenk. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-88192-370-2 1. Moss gardening. 2. Mosses. I. Title SB433.55.S3 1997 635.9'36dc20 96-9357 CIP
Timber Press, Inc. The Haseltine Building 133 S.W. Second Avenue, Suite 450 Portland, Oregon 97204, U.S.A.
Printed in Hong Kong
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Dedicated to the person who pauses to study small things in Nature
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Contents
Preface
9
Chapter One As One Moss Gardener to Another
13
Chapter Two Definitions
19
Chapter Three In the Gardens of Japan
31
Chapter Four In Public Gardens of the West
40
Chapter Five Mossy Rocks
54
Chapter Six The Camp Followers
64
Chapter Seven Moss Carpets
79
Chapter Eight In Alpine Gardens
109
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Chapter Nine Mosses and Lichens in Winter, a Photoessay
122
Chapter Ten In Containers
128
Chapter Eleven Bonsai Mosses
151
Chapter Twelve Transportable Trophies
163
Chapter Thirteen Bugaboos
168
Chapter Fourteen Portraits
175
Chapter Fifteen Potential Nursery Plants
245
Further Reading
252
Index of Mosses and Other Bryophytes
258
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Preface
A preface is needed, please supply. It is your introduction to the book, briefly describing its origin, scope, and interest. Who would be interested in this book? Why would it be of interest to him or her? How did it come about? Toot your own horn a little. Why should the reader look to what you say as a dependable source of information and observations on the topic?
The above exhortation arrived as a note from the publisher of this book. My reply to Timber Press and to you is this: In the first chapter, As One Moss Gardener to Another, I have probably answered those queries, although not so directly as they have been asked, and I have certainly answered others that I myself have posed.
Chapter 1 has much to say that is of vital assistance toward a fuller understanding of almost everything that follows. And I will own up that in writing the chapter I also had in mind soft and sneaky salesmanship. Since I have been asked for something more direct, and can see the need, here goes: What qualifies this book as being worth your time and money? Well, it is a thoroughgoing treatise on its subject. It tells almost as much about the mechanics of moss gardening as the Kama Sutra does about dancing. Like that book, this work of mine may offer more variations on the theme than you really care to know. But I discuss the many aspects of moss gar-
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dening under separate chapters, so you can select those that you want to read about and follow.
Yet the book serves as far more than a manual on planting and maintaining moss. Moss Gardening is also a landscaper's book, the first in English, and perhaps in any language, to outline landscape gardening with mosses and others among the tiniest of ornamentals, toward effects that may not be tiny, that may be grand, even scenic. In this book a planting of moss is never presented as an isolated garden feature but always as an integral part of a garden community that may include trees, shrubs, shrublets, and perennial flowers. There is more. The book even describes how to garden delightfully with mosses by not putting a hand in the enterprise at all: one does it with eyes only. If you decide on such ocular gardening, the book can be enjoyed as the ultimate word on no-work gardening. Or if you are a seeker of light exercise while gardening, this book will show you ways to garden lightly. Or again,
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