Since my post explaining how, during a nocturnal meditative state I was inspired to make an indoor moss garden, I have been filling numerous containers with various mosses. Starting from the moss growing in the cracks between paving stones outside my house, moving onto different species of moss in the forest, I have been using old plastic packaging from blue cheese and ready meals.
Now after four weeks of practice, seeing that the moss is happy with indoor life on the działka, I have invested in a porcelain container, this one being a savoury nibbles tray, below. The moss is from the pine forest beyond the orchards. Before gently removing the moss from the ground, I covered the bottom of the tray with the same sandy soil on which it was growing.
Growing moss indoors is said to have positive effects for the health, filtering indoor air and generally exuding a sense of calm. I dive into Wikipedia to read up about the different mosses; I can identify three distinct types so far. Quite different to the forest moss is the stuff growing along the southern margin of the old DK50, close to where it diverges from the Chynów bypass (below). Rich, spongy-soft and almost neon-green in the sunlight, this is lovely...
Also collecting this week - hop cones. Around the junction of ulica Główna, ul, Grójecka and ul. Miodowa there are four hop bushes that seem to be wild and uncultivated, overhanging public land. I have helped myself to enough to boil up several litres of hop extract. The sad thing about this wonderfully thirst-quenching beverage (non-alcoholic) is that the weather is now too cold for this purpose. The traditional way of treating hop cones - drying them, storing them, and the adding them to the brewing process - is the only means of getting hops to work their magic the following summer.
This time last year:
Gdańsk, Northern Europe
Herons in Jeziorki, summer's end
Stepping up the pace
This time six years ago:
Evolution of human consciousness
This time seven years ago:
Farewell to Ciocia Jadzia
This time eight years ago:
By train from to Konstancin and Siekierki
This time nine years ago:
Summer's end, Jeziorki
This time 11 years ago:
Ząbkowska, Praga's newly-hip thoroughfare
This time 13 years ago:
Catching the klimat
This time 15 years ago:
Road to Łuków - a road trip into the sublime
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