Enhancing your moss garden with rocks and other elementsĪ section on finding moss on city streets, parks and mountains opens your eyes to the beauty that’s all around you every day!.How to make a perfect Kokedama or moss ball.Choosing the best plants for your mini garden.Designing your garden for visual effect.Miniature Moss Gardens presents expert advice and techniques from the birthplace of miniature gardening-Japan.įriendly enough for total beginners and full of ideas and tips that experienced gardeners will love to read about, this moss gardening book brings you information on the following: Be particularly careful when touching moss with your hands or with pincers. Make sure not to damage moss when attaching it. For indoor growing, get moss potting soil. In Canada and the United States, we can grow moss outdoors on loam, clay, or other rich soils preferably not sandy soils. The quest to garden in an eco-friendly manner continues. Coconut coir is often suggested but it too has limitations. Because harvesting peat requires the destruction of irreplaceable carbon-sequestering ecosystems (bogs), the search for sustainable alternatives is underway. *Peat (sphagnum peat moss) has been widely used in potting mixes for years. *Kokedama (soil for moss) can be made from a combination of peat* soil, Akadama soil, Fuji sand (black volcanic rock sand), river sand and charcoal (rice hull charcoal). Japanese sweet flag or other mountain grasses.Use a bonsai pot that has a hole or make a hole in the pot yourself. Pots that are too small do not retain water well and will easily dry out.
Receptacles holding only moss are called moss pots, while moss bonsai have plants growing together with the moss. Japanese-style bowls that evoke a feeling of calm are a good choice, but colorful bowls and receptacles with an interesting shape are also suitable.Ĭhoose something that will complement the atmosphere of the place and work in with the image you are trying to create. When choosing a pot or bowl for your moss bonsai, make sure it has a hole in the base. As the years go by, the moss will get thicker and provide an attractive contrast to the surrounding vegetation. For moss bonsai beginners, a small pot about the size of your hand is recommended as it will not take up too much space.
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