Every year around this time we start collecting fallen bits and pieces of lichen and make a lichen garden in our favorite park. its one of my boys favorite things to do on a winter walk. If you’d like to give it a try, all you do is collect branches and arrange them all together. Lichen is always there, but suddenly becomes super visible in the late fall/ early winter when the trees shed their leaves and everything is grey and gloomy. Suddenly the bright green lichen shines in the forest.