AKA worm or spoon moss, this versatile, shiny species looks a bit like shag carpeting and its translucent leaves add to its green color intensity. In sunnier places it will take on golden overtones.

Barbara Ewing shows hair cap moss, one of 15 different kinds, covering their yard in Yorktown, Va. Barbara and Chuck Ewing in their back yard. Barbara gave up trying to grow grass. She now has moss in ...

Moss Appreciation Week is packed with events both scientific... and also silly. Moss walks, moss talks, moss movies, crafting moss-themed... 'Moss Appreciation Week': a lot of celebration for a very ...

Everyone has a patch of lawn that just won’t give it up for conventional turf grass. You’ve watered, you’ve fed and sweet-talked to no avail. Usually the trouble is two things: not enough sun and ...

Moss gardening is on the rise this October, as damp weather provides an ideal environment and gardeners increasingly adopt sustainable options. That growth is moving moss from shaded corners to living ...

Now is the time of the year when people are working hard to have a beautiful lawn. They are putting down lime and fertilizer as well as some grass seed to fill in the places where grass is sparce.

“The moss was here when we came,” said Joyce Bucher. Fifteen years ago, she bought her Brookhaven complete with a garden that has what she refers to as great bones. The former owners bequeathed her a ...