Introduction and questions

Hello to all;

I've just joined this list and read a few days of posts. Finding an
urge to reply to a query, I though I would introduce myself.
I live in the Fraser River Valley about 50 miles east of Vancouver,
BC in a permanently moist, dark, and year round green
environment that  features a huge range of useful native plants
some of which are well known in the gardens of the world. I'm a
member of the Native Plant Society of British Columbia and an
active supporter of ethical use of riparian vegetation and ecologies.

I have earned my living as a nursery man since 1974 and currently I
am a manager for a therapeutic nursery; which must be one of the
most enviable and rewarding pursuits available to a plantsman.

My back yard is heavily shaded with Thuja plicata, fir, birch, Thuja
occidentalis in various disguises, Physocarpus, heavenly bamboo,
rhodotypos, rhodos, azalea , Serbian spruce, buddlias, coast
redwood and , especially the neighbours 80' Acer macrophyllous.
The understory has even more plants and ground covers include
vincas, cotoneasters, euonymous vars. etc. It is really a small park
and quite open and naturalized in spite of the large but incomplete
listing given.

Under this is a shade tolerant grass that gets to be less tolerant
and less grass every year.

We want to convert a large part of the shadiest part to a moss
garden where we can collect and plant the multitude of natural
mosses found in the local environment.

So after all that scribble, I have a question. How do I convert from
grass to moss ? Has anyone done it successfully and can pass on
their experience ?

Currently, I am planning to use sulphur dust to lower the ph of the
soil but have not yet determined an optimum level. Any one know
what the best ph level for moss would be. I was thinking about
dropping down to 4 - 4.5.

Suggestions and comments would be appreciated.

Dennis

Dennis_Goos@mindlink.net
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