Talk:Moss lawn

Some sources
Hi, User:Clovermoss! I'm moving this discussion here from my talk page as others might be interested. Is the book: I don't have access to the notes I mentioned just now, but I remember this one particularly:
 * , 240 pages? (the Goodreads reviews are entertaining)
 * , 262 pages
 * , 192 pages, non-illustrated?


 * Mossandstonegardens was a quirky and informative site, still available on the Wayback Machines. how-to; misc educational

The rest of this is more of an infodump than notes; I hope you will ignore anything that does not look interesting. 苔, koke, is "moss" in Japanese, a useful search term. 庭, niwa, is "garden". I've added a fair number of mossy gardens in the commons category. Most are Japanese. This may be an artifact of how people label things.

A lot of the peer-reviewed lit is probably pretty offtopic for this article, but on the offchance you're interested I'll post it.


 * https://pnwhandbooks.org/plantdisease/pathogen-articles/nonpathogenic-phenomena/living-land-mosses Pacific Northwest mosses
 * http://blog.abmi.ca/2015/01/22/albertas-wonderful-world-of-bryophytes/ Natural moss forests in Alberta (author profile; he seems like he'd be a good collaborator to invite for moss content, as he has written a lot of the recent relevant literature and is interested in outreach)
 * https://extension.psu.edu/forest-moss Moss as a commercial forest product (literature list)
 * http://biodiversity.sk.ca/docs/the%20mosses%20of%20saskatchewan5.pdf A literature review of the mosses of Saskatchewan
 * (paywalled; the local University library will have access, but the abstract is also informative)
 * an interesting way of measuring growth rate of feathermosses
 * Database of Australian mosses, with nice pictures (Mosses of Western Australia is a very red-linked article]])
 * Remote mapping of mosses
 * Remote mapping of mosses

Nice macro pictures, sampler of types: https://wcbotanicalclub.org/bryophytes/ When those notes are available again, I'll have a look through, but that will likely be some months, and I'm not sure how much useful stuff is in them; some of it was on individual species. HLHJ (talk) 19:57, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The book I borrowed was the first one on the list. It's nice to know that the reviews are entertaining. I'm quite impressed with the sources and all the information you sought out. You really went all out, I appreciate it. It's going to take me some time to read through all of this. Once again, thank you for doing all of this. Clover moss  (talk) 06:26, 2 March 2020 (UTC)


 * Please don't feel obliged to read all this, Clovermoss; I haven't. It's a collection of useful-looking things I found while hunting down remembered sources, listed for reference if wanted, not as a reading list! If the article were longer than 1500 words before Saturday, it would make a really nice item for Did you know (the section on new articles on the main page). Note that the DYK review normally takes weeks, and you may request delays, so you'd have time for your book to come in. I'm happy to help expand it if you'd like help. HLHJ (talk) 02:15, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Diff to my reply on my talk page for people browsing this talk page in the future: . Clover moss  (talk) 23:02, 6 March 2020 (UTC)


 * A useful source: Very detailed, if not very interested in lawns. HLHJ (talk) 02:54, 11 March 2020 (UTC)

Moss and nitrogen-fixing bacteria
According to this source ground up peat moss can be used as a carrier for nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Would this information be relevant to the article? Clover moss (talk) 14:43, 7 March 2020 (UTC)


 * I don't think so, on balance, because they are just using it as a physical substrate. Coir or sisal or biodegradable plastic would work as well. HLHJ (talk) 03:00, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I agree with you! I have learned a bit more about gardening since then. Clover moss  (talk) 05:38, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Small moss gardens
, these aren't technically very good photos, but it would be good to have at least one photo of a moss garden that isn't a large public garden, especially as they are a rather common (if less-photographed) form of moss garden in Japan. Any suggestions? HLHJ (talk) 03:19, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Good idea; the picture needs to be very good indeed. —06:28, 21 August 2022 (UTC)