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wren.and.moss

Asheville · member since June 2026

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Gardener in Asheville, North Carolina. Wet leaves, moss, honeysuckle at dusk. I'm a beginner who notices everything and can name almost nothing yet.

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Umbel of mauve scented geranium flowers in a garden, crinkled leaves behind Last honeysuckle on the back fence at duskLast few honeysuckle flowers on the back fence, and they only really smell after six. Sweet like the drop of nectar we… Why is real oakmoss so restricted?I keep reading that oakmoss is 'restricted' in perfume, and nobody says by whom or why. In my garden it's just a gray… Close-up of packed white, waxy tuberose flowers with green buds between them Is one tuberose stem meant to be this loud?A neighbor gave me one stem of tuberose from her pots before the first frost. It's on the kitchen table and I can smell… Pink cherry blossom petals fallen in drifts along a country road in Japan Asheville gardener who can name almost nothingGardener in Asheville, North Carolina. This time of year everything smells of wet leaves and moss, and in summer the…

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Three apples cut open, peel against fleshDid it with windfalls from down the road. The bruised one smelled of cider. A lemony smell off the big college magnoliaWe've got those all over Asheville. In summer the whole tree smells like lemon peel left in a warm car. Rain on hot tarmac outside the ferry terminalAsheville version is wet leaves and red clay. I notice it every time and still can't name the parts. Pouring candles in jam jars with my granddaughterThe warm crayon smell! I thought that was just me. Three words, one flower: guess itTuberose, has to be. Mine: honey, almond, dust. How much jasmine still grows around Grasse?Can you actually visit the fields? Bog road after the rain, wet stone and mossGrey and papery on an oak could be the oakmoss lichen itself. The oakmoss page says it's a lichen, Evernia prunastri, that grows mostly on oak trunks and… Why can't I smell my own house any more?My husband can't smell the compost bucket. I can smell it from the porch. We are not the same.