Thursday, May 29, 2014

Moss and Ground Cover in G-Scale Garden Train Land 05-29-14

Blog Entry by Bob

With our crazy blend of rain and hot sunny days, our
little plants are really starting to take off.  My Mom and Dad and Mary's Mom were cleaning out the undesirable plants from their lawns, we managed to score a bunch of moss to use as ground cover in the layout. With the short moss, I started making some front lawns for the houses and pulled out the old wooly thyme and scotch moss that was killed by our brutal winter.


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I decided to line the edge of the tracks with long moss where it runs along the boardwalk/deck. We really like the look of this and hope that it will take hold in its new home.


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With the extra long moss I was also able to fill in along the creek and rocks by the tunnels.


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We also went to the nursery and bought more Elfen thyme which I filled in the back yards of the houses and the front yard of the farm house.


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While I was running trains and taking moss pictures I found a toad.


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I then got distracted by running trains and the next thing I knew the sun was setting and I could not take any more pictures.


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