Ever seen moss- balls?

Your words, Sunrize, describe it best! The flow...the
textures...the beauty of the orient!!

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Well, my daughter (11 yrs aka the Garden Fairy) took a mossball to her English teacher on Friday. They had to pick 5 things to put in a bag to talk about as things that symbolized themselves. She took the ever-so-portable mossball to represent her love of dirt and gardening and then gave it to her teacher as a gift. The mossballs are moving on to middle school! The good news is that it was a jade plant mossball and her teacher likes jade plants. He wants the large potted one that I have been moving round my yard in hopes that someone would give it a new home.

We have plans to work on more mossballs this fall after the frantic digging and planting season is over. My dwarf corn plant is looking great!

Thank you, frogrus,for your pleasant news.
Moss-balls are apparently moving on to middle school thanks to the Garden Fairy and her Mom�D
Jade plants her teacher likes are called �ghappiness plants"
in JAPAN and loved by lots of people(I'm not growing them though).
It has never occured to me that they can be moss-balled .
How creative�I
You've certainly stimulated me to make some more new ones.

I'm new here, and saw your moss balls. I have moss growing all over the ground around my house. I'm going to start one today. Have a gorgeous miniature rose that I want to put in it. Wish me luck. All of your plants are gorgeous!

Hello,spacecowgirl.

Welcome to DG. I'm so glad you like my plants.
Luckly you have moss growing all around your house.
Of couse I wish you good luck with all my heart.
I've never tried a rose moss-ball ,though.

I'll try anything once, and I have some mini roses that I just rooted so they are already in house and ready to do something with. Your plants are wonderful!

Not a great picture but look what happened to Fiona's first mossball that she made the end of July. The spider is happily rootbound. I did not notice the baby until today. I guess this ball needs a hanger lol. It is a very small mossball and no longer stands alone very well. I think the green spider is too prolific for the mossballs. The striped one stayed small.

Thank you again Tomtom. This is a wonderful project when friends come over. We are going to use small succulents for the next ones we make. I have been rooting some kalanchoe and others. They will not be especially elegant but the 11 year olds do not care. (and the plants do not care if they miss a watering or two.) I was laughing this morning that I should start a mother of thousands ball. I have them coming up in every pot in the cactus garden. It would be a wild looking thing.

Sorry,spacecowgirl,I couldn't make an earlier reply.
I have some mini roses,too. I love them because they bloom constantly
and are easy to prune.( I'm not good at pruning roses,though. Ouch!)I do wish you best luck.

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Thank you ,forgsrus, for posting an image and info at once intriguing and valuable.�@
You might have no idea how pleased I am to see the moss ball MADE�@IN�@USA�DMy best regards to your dear Fiona.No doubt she's a born Moss-ball maker.
Yes, green spiders seem more prolific than striped ones. The small succulents you said you're going to use may be wonderful to make moss balls with. It never occurred to
me.Thanks a lot for the idea. There'll be moss-balls in American style.

I am going to try some that are along more elegant lines. Yours are so beautiful. The plants that the children use have to stand up to well.....children. It has been amusing to watch which of the children can wind the thread around the ball without wrapping a finger or two in it.

I have seen "wreaths" of succulents that look kind of like a circular moss ball. I would like to try one of those too if I ever get enough propagated. The cactus garden is my son's project, not really mine. Mossballs take many small plants these days.

It is true about green spiders. It is the only one that I have that comes from seed as well as spiderlings. I always have a fresh crop under my two (an interesting lawn edging) but never a striped one.

We are ding our best to spread the moss ball fever to San Diego. Maybe in a year or so (when I get a bit better at it) I will enter some into the fair for all to see.