Moss Garden: Growing Your Own Moss Garden And Lawns
Written by bstanley on July 28, 2009 in Uncategorized, garden method, lawn care, organic gardening
A moss garden is not only easy to maintain but if the Japanese are to be believed, growing moss led to a calm and peaceful state of mind. There are yellow, green, brown and even white varieties of mosses. While cushion mosses provide a cushioning effect to moss lawns, rock cap plant mosses covering the rock surface give it a rich green hue. There are even some plants that behave like mosses even though they are liverworts or hornworts.
What Are Plant Mosses?
Plant mosses, thought to have evolved from primitive vascular plants are very simple plants that lack conventional roots, stems and leaves. Usually hardy plants, mosses grow vertically, not just in moss gardens but almost everywhere except under the sea. These plant mosses are generally of little use to humans or animals but this type of moss gardening is undertaken because of the serenity and meditative calm they spread. Click here to read more …
