Tag Archives: Moss and Stone Gardens
Growing a Greener World
In June of 2012 Moss and Stone Gardens became the focus of a fantastic television series, Growing a Greener World. Hosted by Joe Lampl’ and broadcast nationally on PBS stations, GGWTV has become known for it’s appealling coverage of a … Continue reading
Love A Fair
One of my favorite movies is Love Affair from 1939 starring Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer. It was remade as An Affair To Remember in 1957 with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant and again as Love Affair in 1994 with … Continue reading
High Hopes
I spend a fair amount of time observing the small and tiny features in the landscape. I suppose that comes with the territory of being a moss gardener. To fully study mosses it is necessary to see them up … Continue reading
A day at the Beach
This past week I took a few days from my normal shady seclusion and spent some time in the sun at Holden beach. Located on the southeastern shoreline of North Carolina, Holden is a small island of about 3.4 square … Continue reading
Dividing and Fragmenting Mosses
The best way to propagate moss is by taking a larger piece and dividing it into smaller pieces, then transplanting them apart from one another and encouraging them to grow together. Once moss has covered a surface it will begin adding … Continue reading
Transplanting Polytrichum and Atrichum mosses
Hi David, I recently discovered your site and have been grateful for all the information. I’ve been having some trouble growing moss in my garden and was hoping you might have some advice. A month ago I discovered a large … Continue reading
Moss Man speaks–lawn bad, moss good–moss rocks
The most common question I receive about moss gardening is from people who have decided to give up on their grass lawn in shady areas where naturally occurring mosses have crept in. They ask, “How do I eliminate the remaining … Continue reading
When and how-to water moss
Pre-script: Over the last month, Moss and Stone Gardens Moss and Stone Gardens; has been sharing information about moss–understanding growth rates, preparing soils, how-to collect mosses, and this post about watering moss. This series are actually steps in the process … Continue reading
Fun Faerie Facts
Faeries are famous for being known as fickle. It’s the price they pay for being beautiful or at least that’s the general assumption among the humans. They are indeed beautiful. But to a Faerie, they are not fickle; rather, they … Continue reading
Understanding the growth rate of pleurocarps versus acrocarps
Anyone who has tried to start a moss lawn knows mosses are slow growing. Most people understand this, but many don’t understand why or just how slow is slow. Mosses are very primitive plants without a higher evolved … Continue reading