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MOSS AS ART!
     
   

Mountain Moss Enterprises offers creative designs for sustainable landscapes featuring mosses for shade solutions and sun surprises. Native restoration projects include indigenous bryophytes rescued from high impact areas in western North Carolina.

Eco-friendly * Almost Zero Maintenance * Year-round GREEN * Sustainable Landscapes

Unique gardenscapes can be custom-designed for your enjoyment utilizing moss as the focal feature. The practical advantages of eco-friendly moss are further enhanced by the almost intangible beauty of mystical moss mounds and carpets. The year-round green of moss complements native plants as well as colorful, exotic plants including annuals and perennials.

Creation of unique public and private gardens featuring bryophytes!

Shade Gardens

Japanese Tea Gardens

Moss instead of Grass Lawns

Alternative to Mulch

Bog Gardens and Rain Gardens

Waterfalls and Streams

Rock Walls and Stone Patios

Native Restoration Projects 

 

GREEN RESCUE of MOSS!

  • Full-cycle GREEN rescue of moss for Native Restoration Projects
  • Coordination with site developers, contractors, land-use planners, and landscape design architects who believe in GREEN concepts
  • RESCUE of moss prior to any site development or road construction
  • Reintroduction of moss in creative, unique moss gardens and/or replacement back into natural settings

Promotion and public education on the advantages and joys of moss gardening!

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For over 5000 years, moss has been recognized by the Japanese as an important component of the spiritual experience in the Zen Moss Gardens of Kyoto. Many a hiker has been delighted by the year-round green of magical mounds and lush logs carpeted in moss in North America's mesic forests.  Mountain Moss creates moss gardens that allow you to experience the tranquility of western North Carolina's indigenous mosses in your own garden!
The first  awesome view of this green expanse with its myriad shades of green and the sculpted textures of the moss terrain is upstaged when you look closer at these incredible miniature plants.  Moss pincushions and carpets are actually colonies of thousands of tiny, individual, unique plants. Academic bryologists and moss lovers continue to be fascinated with special characteristics and reproductive process of this non-vascular plant. Join me in taking a "closer look" at the joys and advantages MOSS and featuring bryophytes in YOUR own garden!

 

On a personal note, I am embarking upon this quest to share my passion for mosses with others. As a moss artist, I create gardens using all types of indigenous bryophytes in unique presentations of lush green emphasizing textures, shapes and shades of green. Using mosses rescued from site development is a focus of my garden features. As the GREEN concept becomes popular, it is my sincere hope that land use planners and developers will recognize this important aspect of responsible land stewardship and determine native plant rescue as an essential step when implementing green concepts. I hope you join me in GOING GREEN WITH MOSS!
Please Note: This site is intended for the general public to learn more about the joys of MOSS and to promote GREEN Rescue! This Web site is a place to start learning about bryophytes from a "moss lover" with practical experience "mossin'" and creating moss gardens.  For more information on Mountain Moss Enterprises' projects and services,  please contact:  

Annie Martin      mossinannie@gmail.com

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KittyCraig
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want your address
Reply #50 on : Sun June 14, 2009, 08:13:31
I was in your moss workshop at bonsai meeting and realized I did not pay enough for the amount of moss that I used as well as a container and would like to send $10.00 more if you would give me an address. Thanks for a fun time and I appreciate the work you put into our workshop and lecture.
Jim
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Visit us
Reply #49 on : Mon June 08, 2009, 06:25:49
I really love what you do. We hope you'll have an occasion to come and see us.
Annie
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Moss Lovers on FaceBook
Reply #48 on : Tue May 19, 2009, 06:20:38
Let's grow a network of moss lovers on FaceBook. Please join the Go Green With Moss group. It is a pro-active forum for bryologists, moss gardeners, and plain ol' moss lovers to rally round and share our moss perspectives with each other. Topics of interest will be posted for discussion. Ideas for action items will be presented. Moss gardening techniques will be shared. In the spirit of cooperation, we can grow the moss movement together. If you are already using FaceBook just search for the Go Green With Moss group and JOIN TODAY! If you haven't started your FaceBook experience, join in the fun. You'll have the chance to reconnect with old friends and make new friends. Join FACEBOOK'S GO GREEN WITH MOSS GROUP NOW!
Annie
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Moss in Cracks - Patios and Paths
Reply #47 on : Tue May 19, 2009, 06:08:57
By adding mosses to the cracks of your patio or path, a softness and sense of place can be achieved. You can let it naturally occur by killing the weeds first. It might help to add a bit of soil/clay to the sand in the cracks and then add aluminum sulfate to lower the pH to desired 5.5. You could try the buttermilk milkshake using sun-tolerant moss types as your base. The buttermilk serves only as a glue.

I've added mosses to new patios and given them appearance of appealing age. The best mosses to use are ones often found in urban areas. Ceratodon and all types of Bryums will offer a soft velvety green with splashes of reds and golds when in sporophytic stages. The common name for Bryum is sidewalk moss or silver-tip moss. It can be found around the edges of parking lots and old buildings. I've also used Thuidium, Entodon and Leucobryum.

A couple of hints: It can be a tedious job to gather the tiny mosses and then slow going planting such small pieces in those litte grooves. Also, use a sharp rock or tool to make the groove a little deeper so more water will accumulate. As always, WATER and WALK on your mosses after planted. This step is quite important in establishing your mosses! Do it every day... maybe even twice a day for about a month. It can be fun walking on your cracks like a maze. Please note: Frequency in watering/misting is desired not drenching soaks. It should on take a few minutes to accomplish your watering needs.
Finally, moss will not displace the weeds since they have roots stronger than the rhizoids of the mosses. However, once mosses are established, weeding should be minimal.
Good luck! Please keep me posted. I'll upload some more moss patio photos to my Web Image Gallery for you. If you live nearby, I'm available for site consultations and moss installations. Please email me if I may be of further assistance. Go Green With Moss!
RS
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Growing Moss between pathway bricks--joints between bricks are about 1/4" wide.
Reply #46 on : Mon May 18, 2009, 06:49:53
How do you suggest promoting moss to grow in 1/4" wide joints between bricks on a garden pathway? The joints are sand. Some joints have grown moss naturally while others grow weeds. Will moss displace weeds? Most of pathway is in sunlight most of the day.

Thank you for any direction on this matter. I've heard that buttermilk promotes moss.

RS
sarah thorpe
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important!!!!!!!!!!
Reply #45 on : Thu April 30, 2009, 19:43:02
send me a picture of a nonvascular plant please? cool moss yard!
Last Edit: May 04, 2009, 11:46:16 by Annie  
dehan@webtv.net
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Coast to Coast
Reply #44 on : Wed April 22, 2009, 13:18:53
How do your moss portfolios fair in other
environments? Do you give moisture instructions?
I'd like to look at them.

When i traveled to Ireland they were into
recreating every habitat in the world back
to the Islands. I wondered instead for bioregionalism. What is natural to the islands?


I'm from Long Island not Carolina. Would
this be considered an invasive plant?
To travel into CA there are plant inspection
stations. Can Moss and other plant types
be removed from Carolina or visa versa?

I have a large garden space i'd like to
think if this would be an interesting addition?

David
PO Box 45531
Seattle, WA
98145
Last Edit: April 22, 2009, 20:21:04 by Annie  
Annie
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Moss in the News Again - Cleveland, Ohio
Reply #43 on : Sun April 12, 2009, 03:33:17
The interest in moss gardening continues to spread across this country. The largest newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio, The Plain Dealer, has published an article on April 8, 2009. Just in case you missed it, please check out their Web site: http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2009/04/all_about_moss_the_velvety_gre.html
Thanks to Roxanne Washington for promoting moss in the Midwest.
Other moss articles have been published by The New York Times and The Washington Post. The popularity of moss is gaining momentum. Go Green With Moss!
Annie
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Milkshake Dilemma
Reply #42 on : Sun April 05, 2009, 04:10:03
It has rained over 5 inches since the moss milkshake experiment started. I am doubtful of any success. I have reservations about this technique.
Annie
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Moss Milkshake or Slurry
Reply #41 on : Mon March 23, 2009, 10:21:39
After many inquiries about the popular idea of making a moss milkshake or slurry, I finally am testing the technique personally. I've started by making two separate mixtures of moss paint using Leucobryum glaucum and Thuidium delicatulum. Using an old blender, I mixed moss, water absorbing crystals already wet (instead of buttermilk), and some rain water for fluidity. Then I painted each mixture on a variety of substrates including bricks, cement, logs, rocks and even a felt flower. I will post some photos on my Image Gallery of this first step. I'll keep this Web site updated with moss mixture progress at intervals. Wish me luck. Go Green With Moss! Mossin' Annie
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