The moss garden recently.💚🌿Location is our cottage in New Hampshire. We bought it in 2011 and I have been slowly transforming the gardens as a labor of love. For more on this area and the rest of the garden, along with plant names, check out the Garden Tour playlist. Some plants I’ve added here are ferns, astilbe, coral bells, hosta, lamium and a limelight hydrangea. In the back it’s macrophylla hydrangeas I thought would always just be foliage, and a number of other things but mostly ferns. I

Do you appreciate moss? There are around 20,000 different types of moss in the world. It is the oldest land plant, dating back over 400 million years. I started working on this moss garden in 2020 at our cottage in southwest New Hampshire (zone 5). There was already some moss there and I liked the way it looked so I started adding small pieces I got from the surrounding woods. I've learned that this is the best way to harvest it so it can regrow in that same area. It transplants best when it goe

Moss under an old-school microscope