Tag Archives: moss

Watering Moss Terrariums

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Reader Questions Building a terrarium? Twelve species in stock, cleaned and pest checked for closed builds, from a quarter of a square foot. Sheet moss for the floor, cushion and mood moss as accents. See live terrarium moss Dear Moss And Stone Gardens, Hi! Let me just say, I’m a huge fan of your blog. […]

Peeps Picnic — 2012

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No Peeps are supplied with any order. The moss is real though, cut the week you order and sold by the square foot. Sheet moss makes the best Hop Circles, we are told. Building the Diorama See live moss by the square foot · the Faerie facts Hi it’s me, Bernard.  I’m in my new […]

Turf Infestation

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Readers Question Looking for a ground-hugging evergreen carpet? Irish moss and Scotch moss are not mosses, need full sun, and are known for withering. Real moss asks for the opposite conditions and none of the fuss: no mowing, no feeding, no chemicals, and it stays green through winter in shade where grass fails. See twelve […]

Collecting Moss

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Readers Question Brown patches in a collected moss garden are usually a species problem, not a watering problem. Acrocarps want to dry out between waterings; pleurocarps want steady moisture. Plant them together on one schedule and half of it dies. Match a species to your site · live moss by the square foot Failing mosses […]

Earthworm castings on moss

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Encouraging moss that is already there? Watering is the free half of the job, and this post covers what happens when you overdo it. The bare patches are the slow part: a moss milkshake seeds them for a few dollars a square foot, and laid sheets close them the same day. See moss milkshakes and […]

Happy Mossgiving

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Moss really is cut to order, by the square foot. See the range Happy Mossgiving to you and yours Let us give thanks and praise. Moss be with you Moss be good Moss be all over your neighborhood. Moss is green Moss is gold Moss is something to behold. Moss in pebble Moss in cobble […]

Moss And Leaves

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Readers Questions Rolling a net out in autumn is close to the whole maintenance list. No mowing, no feeding, no herbicide, no irrigation once it is established. Leaves for a few weeks in fall, and that is it. See live moss by the square foot · moss instead of a lawn Dear Moss And Stone […]

Moss, maple, mortar

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Three of the mosses in this piece are on our shelves. Cushion moss for the domes, mood moss, also sold as rock cap, against the stone, and tree apron moss for the flat ground. A container this size takes well under a square foot of each. See terrarium and container moss · every species we […]

Moss Trending

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The species named here are the ones we supply. Sheet moss and fern moss for a shady lawn, Bryum for sun, and the mounding acrocarps for borders and living mulch. Adding more than one species is the advice below, and it is the right advice. Why Mixed Plantings Last Longer See every species we supply […]

A couple of catchy moss caches – your new best friends

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The pots are long gone, the moss is not. A three-inch dish takes about a quarter of a square foot, and the care really is as forgiving as this post says: mist when you think of it, and it will wait weeks without you. See terrarium and dish garden moss     Cheeky, catchy, charming, […]