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Making moss terrariums is fun

 This is a moss terrarium I made at the moss terrarium workshop the other day.  Let me explain from the beginning, I attended a workshop on making moss terrariums in middle October. The venue is inside this old-fashioned temple in Nagahama City, Shiga Pref., Japan. There were 10 participants, 8 of whom were women. The instructor runs a local landscaping, civil engineering, and exterior design company. Given his profession, he is very knowledgeable about moss. Over ten different types of moss were provided. A variety of small decorative items were also provided, including pebbles (meant to represent rocks), miniature concrete blocks, seashells, and white gravel, etc. The bowl on the right contains soil for a moss terrarium. Also provided were items such as cross-sections of tree branches—meant to resemble wooden stumps—as well as small figurines, etc. I got greedy and added too many stones, blocks, or tree stumps, so there wasn’t any space left to plant moss. I was told it’s a good ...

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