Here are some ideas for using less water and fewer chemicals and adding more diversity and color to your landscape.

In the rainy climate of Western Washington rocks and boulders can grow moss to add to their beauty. You don’t need to spare the plant material if you decide to use stone in your landscape.

Look for lichen in shaded or damp areas around older trees, rocks and boulders, fallen branches or logs, and old wooden or stone fences. Like moss, lichen grows slowly so harvest sparingly.

Experts at the Woodland Trust say part of the Smithills estate, within the West Pennine moors, has many indicators of it being 'temperate rainforest' ...

The habitat of ancient oak, birch, ash, pine and hazel woodland is made even more diverse by open glades, boulders ... such as the right moss and liverwort “That’s a really good sign, we ...

There are 538 very uneven, steep and slippery stone steps to climb before I reach ... which is tucked under a massive boulder, I can understand why this place is so spiritually significant.

But after a few steps on slippery, moss-covered logs ... when they dug near the boulder while searching for a missing cat. A deep furrow was left on the stone from the cutting edge of the tool.

The final two miles cut through a boulder field and the most ... bare trees had tentacular branches and the stone walls were covered in bright green moss. The sun turned the north facing slopes ...