Asheville gardener who can name almost nothing

Welcome, wren. Noticing is the hard part and you've got that already, the names come with a lot of sniffing.

That mossy smell under the trees has a name in perfume, oakmoss, a lichen that grows on oak bark, and you'll know it the minute you meet it.

A lichen! I've been pulling that off the oaks for years without knowing what it was.

Wet leaves smell almost exactly like my clay bin after a weekend shut. For me the naming came slower then the noticing.

Wet ferns here in Swansea, same sort of smell I think. Welcome.