Moss, maple, mortar
The pairing of moss and maples melds together like moss on moist. This antique Japanese teak rice mortar, inspired David Spain to go with the placement of a Japanese maple, nestled deep in the mortar base. As David explains, When I found this 100+ year old teak mortar, I knew…
Moss, Martha, Moss Rocks!
As a business, the word about David Spain and Ken Gergle’s company, Moss and Stone Gardens has spread solely through word-of-mouth. For more than 12 years, Moss and Stone Gardens focused on landscape design. Their designs are artistic in nature, which is no surprise since both David and Ken have…
Moss pH preference
I feel very fortunate to be in the position to ask anything of David Spain, moss expert, co-owner of Moss and Stone Gardens. Often, when I’m researching a piece for this blog or another media outlet, I’ve learned to question long held beliefs. David has taught me think about moss and…
Moss Rocks! ROCKED the IGC Show in Chicago
After 450 million years in the making, 2 years in development, a patent pending, and an infinite number of ideas flowing, stirring up juices like one might find in a frothy river, Moss and Stone Gardens — Where Moss Rocks! launched their first moss dish garden to an eager group…
Moss Trending
Emerald green, rolling mounds, stillness enticing, and barefoot begging, mosses are finally getting the recognition they deserve. Primitive plants, evolving 450 million years ago — 70 million years before ferns and tens of millions more years before the first dinosaur, mosses are finally getting their due. There has been a…
Moss – squirrels, birds, and other moss meddling crittters
Dear David, The squirrels have been digging up my attempts to grow a moss lawn. What do you suggest? I have so many unpleasant thoughts about ways to eat the squirrel. Vance Dear Vance, I feel your pain. squirrels can be a troublesome…
A couple of catchy moss caches – your new best friends
Cheeky, catchy, charming, cute, Moss and Stone Gardens’ Mexican earthenware moss caches are a gardener’s new best friend. At first they seem like just another adorable way to befriend moss, but you soon realize, they are so much more. “These small containers were fun to put together, the…
At home with moss
Welcome to my home away from home. Come, leave your cares at the steps; go west then north. Tiny your size and imagine how clever I can be with moss as my muse. Imagine, how savvy you will be, once mellowed by moss. After our minds have synced, we can…
Making Moss Terrariums – Or Not…
When glass gathers moss , the glory is intensified. By night, glass glistens from the light of a firefly or the stars shining from above. Inside, glass glistens, too, as a reflection from candle light’s soft glow. By day, glass becomes a vessel, flattering all that resides, elevating the status…
Country Gardens Magazine photo shoot of moss dish gardens
To be fair, I should have warned Country Gardens Magazine’s photographers about moss. To our readers as well, moss be warned. Having touched on the side-effects of moss in an earlier post, I now think it’s of the utmost importance to spell it out — moss gardens…