Mossiness

This checkerboard effect is created by planting Sagina subulata (green) and Sagina subulata Aurea (yellow).Otherwise known as Irish and Scotch moss. I planted up this flat at work this year as a possible way to sell it to our clients. I have been doing this for years at home and then of course, in the latest issue of Martha she's got the configuration as a centerpiece on a table so I guess that means she invented it. Anyway, last year I covered my dogs grave with a large planting of the 2 in a checkerboard on the edge of the woods with Violas intermixed. It looked groovy. And don't you just love saying Sagina? I could say it all day. Sagina, Sagina, Sagina, Sagina, Sagina.