Gardens Illustrated Magazine

Know your lichen

The chances are that lichens are growing closer to hand than you might think.

Small in stature, their subtle and furtive beauty passes unnoticed by the casual eye. I first discovered lichens as a coral-like cluster hanging from the branches of a gnarly tree on the edge of Dartmoor, but I also see them as blackened blotches on shoreline rocks and in

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