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Hello I’m new to mosses and I found your site when I was looking for moss for a terrarium. I ordered one of your terrarium kits, it has been really great so far I love watching the eco-system change and grow. Last week I noticed a change in my terrarium, I thought it was mold but I have since changed my opinion. I have a film of web like…[Read more]

Hi! We just added a cedar barrel sauna to our backyard in Adirondacks, NY. I would love to have a moss “cushion” at the sauna entrance (and a whole moss lawn for that matter but that’s a bigger project!)
We have 17 acres and lots of moss that I can harvest sustainably. My concern is the substrate. Our backyard is very shady and the soil is sandy.…[Read more]

Hi Annie. I love moss and love your book, and am very excited to get started creating pockets of mossy refuge of my own. The place I’m eyeing first is under a kousa dogwood tree. It is well shaded during the summer but not in the winter. There is already some fern-like moss growing there mixed in with the grass, and I saw your answer to a previous…[Read more]

Hello!
I’m down in Charlotte and have been cultivating a moss lawn for the last 3 years that started naturally in my backyard. My lawn is mostly made up of Pleurozium Scherberi and I am noticing patches of it are turning white. It looks like bleach has been poured on it in spots. It isn’t powdery mildew. I water for a few minutes each day…[Read more]

Hi Annie,
I created a 12′ Cob Lizard in my garden this spring. Cob is a mixture of natural clay, sand and straw) I would like to encourage moss to grow on it. I have already tried the buttermilk/moss concoction with little success, and I’m considering buying sheets of living moss. I live in Durham NC, and am wondering how I can safely attach…[Read more]

Hi Annie – I love what you are doing as I love moss like you do… I am growing a moss lawn, definitely a challenge with the birds, but I love caring for it – maybe too much more than I like doing other things

Anyway, my next moss project is to make a painting-sized wallhanging for indoor enjoyment. I am wondering about the best substrate for…[Read more]

I’m struggling with (what I think is) Atrichum undulatum. It grows in happy little patches around my woods but when I attempt to keep it indoors it dies off. I keep the soil its growing on as its substrate, use distilled water to mist, (our tap is hard well water) and tried many different levels of lighting. Any tips? Should I be doing something…[Read more]

I live in southeast Michigan and want to plant moss between my flagstone. It’s part sun and shade. What type of moss do you suggest?

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I’m wondering how well mosses…and lichens and liverworts… can survive regular innudation. Several years ago I studied the growth on a fallen log in the river bottom forrest of the Red River in Manitoba. It was amazingly abundant, covered in mosses, lichen, liverworts and fungi… a joy to behold. But this log was in an unusual place; it…[Read more]

Hello. I was looking for moss for around the base of a bonsai tree. It’s an indoor tree, but it gets relatively frequent watering and the soil stays moist (it is a ficus) – it has steady indoor temps of 60-75 and an artificial grow light (lack of much natural sun, but the tree grows well with the artificial light). It also gets some misting for…[Read more]

I’m endeavoring to create some moss paths in my front yard. I plan on digging up lanes about 18″ wide in my scraggly grass down to the dirt, laying down about 1/2″ of newsprint(my brother has given me past issues of the NYT and I have several bags full), covering that with about 1″ of dirt and setting the moss directly on the dirt. I will line…[Read more]

Hi! Just wondering what the best moss would be to use in containers for forced bulbs? Also, how/can this be most easily propogated? thanks!

Hi Annie, I’ve often thought about growing moss instead of a lawn. I live about 30 miles east of Cameron NC (28326) and I get a lot of full sun exposure. What types of moss would (might?) grow for me? I’ve also started a mini orchard so eventually it will be sun and shade on one part of the yard.

I am wanting to expand my patch of Polytrichum juniperinum in my garden. I have tried a few things unsuccessfully.
Is there a preferred method that you recommend? can you chop it up and scatter it the way that seems to work with other mosses? I have tried chopping and blending with chopped, dried sphagnum, as well as “transplanting” small…[Read more]

Will I be able to plant moss on bare red clay? I was thinking mood moss and pincushion moss.

Hi I bought your book recently, and read a little about the ph soil being somewhat important and that you also said that clay is basic and just a little confused about whether this will work or not. I have also seen in places that you can grow moss on…[Read more]

Hi Annie, I have built some homemade stairs on a steep incline in my yard Seattle, out of pavers and plants and dirt. there are some ugly vertical spaces between the steps and I was hoping to grow some moss there. This hill gets a lot of sun, but there are some shady spots from the plants that I put there. Do you have any recommendations for type…[Read more]

I’m looking for recommendations. I live in NH and I’m building a Japanese garden. I have an area 30’x30′ I’m looking to cover with moss. The space gets primarily full sun. One portion is a slope down into my koi pond. The area doesn’t have to be all the same species.

I’d like species that spread so I could save some money not having to buy…[Read more]