エドガー
Shohin
I live in south OC in SoCal, about 8-10miles inland from the coast/beach, very hilly city, zone 10b.
The yard in particular, gets mostly full sun with no big shade trees. Only shade is in the side-yards or north-facing block-walls.
It's pretty dry here (esp with the occasional Santa Ana wind storms). Not uncommon to average about teens-20s% humidity in summer or during Santa Ana winds (sometimes to single digit %s).
But, fall/winter/spring is better with normal humidity in the 50s-80s%.
Summers usually hover around low-high 80s F, with frequent 90s F on occasion and very seldom rare +100s F.
I've always heard moss can't grow in SoCal 10b; so, I've never tried using/planting it before. But, I was just thinking about it today... so wanted to really know if there are any varieties of Moss that can actually grow in dry, hot, SoCal 10b? Sun-tolerant ones would be very versatile too (if they even exist?)
What I'm trying to do:
Make little hills/undulations and islands around the garden, covered in moss. Like the moss covered small hills/islands used in Japanese gardens. (I know I know... Japan is a much much different and moister climate).
I know some Japanese gardeners here in LA/SoCal sometimes use dwarf-mondo-grass for a similar "carpeting" effect ( still not the same as moss tho). But, really wondering if there's a moss out there that can work in SoCal.
The yard in particular, gets mostly full sun with no big shade trees. Only shade is in the side-yards or north-facing block-walls.
It's pretty dry here (esp with the occasional Santa Ana wind storms). Not uncommon to average about teens-20s% humidity in summer or during Santa Ana winds (sometimes to single digit %s).
But, fall/winter/spring is better with normal humidity in the 50s-80s%.
Summers usually hover around low-high 80s F, with frequent 90s F on occasion and very seldom rare +100s F.
I've always heard moss can't grow in SoCal 10b; so, I've never tried using/planting it before. But, I was just thinking about it today... so wanted to really know if there are any varieties of Moss that can actually grow in dry, hot, SoCal 10b? Sun-tolerant ones would be very versatile too (if they even exist?)
What I'm trying to do:
Make little hills/undulations and islands around the garden, covered in moss. Like the moss covered small hills/islands used in Japanese gardens. (I know I know... Japan is a much much different and moister climate).
I know some Japanese gardeners here in LA/SoCal sometimes use dwarf-mondo-grass for a similar "carpeting" effect ( still not the same as moss tho). But, really wondering if there's a moss out there that can work in SoCal.