f you ever made a sand saucer as a kid, you’ll know that moss is an essential element for creating a pleasing sward of green in a mini landscape. As a child I would scrape clumps of it off our driveway and press it into the base of an ice cream container, on top of a layer of dirt. To that I’d add flowers, a pond and a pebbled pathway, and my tiny garden was complete. In recent years I’ve embarked on more covert moss foraging missions, including one last year that involved scaling a fence and sweeping it off the neighbour’s shed roof with a broom. This was used to create a mossy base around the bottom of a
