Moss

One of things that Blogging teaches you is that when you look at something closely there is usually more to see than you would initially think. Here's an illustration of that thought.

Look at these. Pendulous bright green flower buds borne on tall slender stems. Lots of interest here.

Now look at them from a distance. This is the view you get when standing upright:

Yes, it's a little patch of moss growing on the weed-suppressing fabric on which the shingle in my garden is laid. The white bits are pieces of sawdust from when the Maple tree was trimmed just recently.

Those flower-stems are only a centimetre tall, and you have to get down on your hands and knees to appreciate them!

Here's a picture of the same patch of moss, taken in January, when the last batch of seed-heads was mature.

Looked at in this scale, you have a whole garden in one flower-pot!