Martin,

Not all mosses are good candidates for bonsai lawns.
You need a short, close growing variety. I was taught
to harvest moss by my late sensei, Tosh Subruomaru.
You go out there with a trowel or spatula and scrape
up the surface of the moss, then you sweep this into a
dust pan, or whatever, and treat like moss seed.

It is better to not use moss on your trees, but good
to have some on the side you can use to dress up trees
for show. Trees with craggy bark that gets moss
growing up the trunk is difficult to correct. You
never really get all the moss off the trunk and still
keep all the knobby bits.

Kits

--- Martin wrote:

Hello all,

I was wondering if anyone had advice on mass
culitvation and harvesting of
mosses for eventual use in bonsai pots. I've noticed
moss seems to grow
great on concrete and brickwork in my back garden
and wonder if this could
be reproduced on a larger, non-seasonal dependant
scale? Perhaps even a
commercial scale? I'd love to be able to go into a
bonsai nursery and
purchase a slab of moss any time of the year for my
bonsai.

Tis mid Winter here in South Eastern Australia-
averaging 15-6 deg C (59-42 deg F),


Thanks - Martin


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