Sheet Moss

My beautiful moss delivered to Atlanta from TN Nursery yesterday. It arrived looking lush and ready to beautify the earthy shaded areas around the sides of my house.

This morning, I followed the helpful installation instructions TN Nursery included with my order to get my mossy lil’ test patch planted. When I was done, it looked so dang good I began mapping out more shady spots to fill with my next order of moss.

They say a rolling stone gathers no moss. Well, I want my yard’s shady patches to gather MORE moss from TN Nursery because it looks approximately a thousand times better when it does.

TN Nursery delivered sheet moss that was fresh, green, and full of texture. It spread easily and gave my backyard garden a rich, natural forest floor look. Fantastic quality and excellent value.

The sheet moss I ordered came vibrant, thick, and full of life. It established quickly and now provides a lush, soft ground cover that enhances the beauty of my woodland-style garden.

Moss arrived quickly and healthy. Planted right away and very happy with my purchase.

We were very surprised by how quickly it came! We were told to expect 7 to 10 days for delivery, but it was here in less than 24 hours. That was quite a feat in itself, considering it looked like it was just harvested. The big box was overwhelming in quantity, but in my eagerness to improve our yard quickly, it was my mistake to order that much all at once. We did move all of the moss out of the box the next day in order not to lose any. To me, moss is gold. But, it was quite a challenge to move that much moss quickly in order to keep it from rotting. We would not order that quantity again. Half as much would be wiser. The moss was nice and moist and well protected in it’s plastic lined box, but there was a lot of debris along with it. In order to keep moss cleaner it would have been better to pack it top to top rather than top to bottom. We were not pleased with the amount of debris that came with the moss. It has taken an inordinate amount of time to clean the moss of all debris, sticks, pine cones and all. This type of moss is probably the same type as what is at Mountain Mitchell. At that altitude it is always cool and misty, even in summer. Our altitude is around 2500 and hotter with no consistent mist. We do have an irrigation system and have been keeping it moist. We have been surprised by how little direct sun the moss is actually getting in our yard. Our trees have matured a lot more than we realized in terms of blocking out full-on sun in the one part of our yard that was in question. We were concerned that that area of the yard might burn out the moss, but we are happy to find that the strong sun has proven to be minimal. This is the reason we chose moss to replace our lawn, which has **** thrived. But, even though we moved the moss quickly and have provided consistent moisture, some of the moss has browned out. I have questioned if we were watering it too much and have reduced the time of watering to a much shorter period. I am not sure yet if it might still only be happy in it’s native environment or if it will eventually acclimate. This moss will tremendously reduce our runoff problem, but it’s hardiness is still in question in our environment rather than it’s native higher altitude environment. We are hoping it thrives and spreads, but it is an expensive experiment in time, effort and money. It will require a great deal to cover our lawn area and financially purchasing more will have to be parsed out. This is a new type of moss to what we are familiar and have experience with. Because it is light and fluffy, we are not sure how difficult it will be to clean leaves and acorns off of when they all drop. And we have a lot of trees! It obviously grows in a more pine environment rather than under deciduous trees. We are not sure how we will blow leaves in the mass quantity we have without blowing the moss away too. We will obviously have to take great care. We are hoping by leaf season it will have established itself into a stronger status. We also don’t know how it will realistically be able to handle walking on versus a more low and tight growing variety. We chose this thicker variety in order to absorb runoff from a sloped yard, but only time will tell to it’s easy livability and hardiness. We feel it solves some problems, but creates new ones. We have paths that will keep us from walking on the moss a great deal. At this point, the amount that we installed does not cover that much of our lawn area. But, it definitely will be enough to reduce our run-off problems. Happily, we are able to get a mower to our front yard without rolling over this moss. It’s appearance is fairly attractive, but certainly not the bright lime color as portrayed in pictures on-line. However, it is a far cry from raw dirt or sparsely growing grass that we have experienced for years. We will also have to wait and see how it holds up to squirrels, moles and voles when they do their ****!