The glass half full

Moss grows everywhere — along pathways, on tracks, on old wood. It’s probably somewhere right under your nose, so you won’t have any trouble finding some for your terrarium project. Keep in mind, though, that it’s illegal to take it from national parks or other signposted prohibited collection areas, like botanical gardens or nature reserves.

Mosses are non flowering, nonvascular plants — that is, they can’t pump water like other plants as they have no roots and absorb their moisture through structures known as rhizoids, which