Growing Moss on Rocks and Stone
Monday July 14, 2008
Everyone wants the look of a mature, weathered garden. A quick trick for getting that look in a rock garden is to cultivate moss on the rocks themselves. Here’s David Beaulieu’s twist on the old buttermilk recipe for getting moss to grow on rocks and stone.
Photo: © Marie Iannotti (2008) licensed to About.com, Inc.
Comments
I’m sure this process will work well but it should be noted that the moss you use should be from the same sort of environment that the rock will be in, and preferably be the low flat kind of moss that grows on rocks not the tall sphagnum moss that grows in the shady areas of your lawn.
You know I’ve read that before, yet I had very good luck scraping some moss off of both my lawn and a brick walkway and getting them to grow on the landscape fabric that lines my water garden and then onto the stones that line it. Of course, it’s very damp there and it used to be quite shady.
Hey! This is so much nicer than my old recipe of..gulp, cow manure and milk..eww!
Amy
I think that is a very good way of growing moss on rock,s But can you grow the same moss on pottery pot.s
Sometimes, if you keep it moist. I don’t know if it’s the pots pH or the smoothness of the pot, but I’ve found them more difficult to coax along than rocks.