If I told you that this was a piece of spaghnum moss harvested from my backyard, would you think I was crazy?
We have a mat outside our back door–on the north side of the house. It grows moss like most gardens grow weeds.
One day a week or two ago, I went out and noticed that the moss had been all disrupted–torn away and was lying in sheets and pieces around the mat. So I picked some up and that’s when I noticed how much like spaghnum this moss was.
It’s so much like spaghnum in fact that I brought some of the more disrupted pieces in and put them in my orchids. No point in wasting them.
I suspect that squirrels or more likely chipmunks had been digging around in the moss to get to seeds or acorns or both that had fallen on the moss and the mat. I don’t think squirrels or chipmunks care about moss.
I adore it–but on the other hand, I tried to tamp the larger sheets of it back into place. (Notice all the mast around the moss on this mat, by the way). If I actually thought I was growing my own spaghnum, I would have entirely different ideas about using it!
Gardendaze 