My name is Stephanie Weisser. I live in Buckingham, Pennsylvania, Zone 6b. My husband, Michael, and I have been gardening for almost 40 years. The plants are my purview, and Michael builds the stone paths and walls and creates the layout.
I recently retired and have more time to focus on my garden, which brings me great joy and occasional frustration.
Michael shot these lovely photos, showing early spring in our garden.
We installed a deer fence a year or so ago, and it was worth every penny. I would have very little garden without it.
We’ve been working on various parts of the landscape, but it’s our moss garden that gets the oohs and ahs. It’s about 30 feet by 90 feet and has a rootery and rock garden, plus little runoff areas etched into the moss.
A parrot tulip with tiny sedum in the background.
A close-up of the moss garden and shade bed that abuts the fence. There’s an assortment of shade perennials, including Solomon’s seal (Polygonatum odoratum ‘Variegatum’, Zones 3–8), bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis, Zones 3–9), and the hostas and Japanese painted fern (Athyrium japonicum var. pictum, Zones 3–8) that are just starting to emerge. The spot of red is a species tulip.
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Comments
Wow your gardens are lovely! Love the idea of moss. I read a story many years ago of a moss garden in Japan that has a man that weeds the moss with tweezers - every day! Love the photo with the lambs ears! Happy retirement!
Your garden is so lovely! Thank you for sharing! I'm envious of your fence to keep the deer out. I have let a large shady area under a huge maple tree by the street go to moss over the last few years, and I much prefer the moss to the former grass that didn't do well there.
Hi Patty,
Thank you. It’s retirement coupled with isolation, unfortunately.
Yes, moss requires intensive weeding in the beginning, but later a weekly maintenance is sufficient.
The deer fence is the best. And if you find moss growing, weed out the grass and it will flourish.
What a great garden. I love the different combinations of plants that you have assembled. I enjoy mosses in nature and had never thought of cultivating them in the garden.
Thank you. I choose my plants by what will grow, what works aesthetically but also what’s on sale, especially since I continue to expand my beds.
Very attractive shade garden! I'm curious, how do clear fallen leaves from the mossy areas?
Thank you. We use a blower. Clears them right off.
Love that tulip!
Those parrot tulips are crazy,
I loved seeing the photos of your garden this morning. It reminded me of a Garden that I visited in the Bar Harbor area of Maine a few years back. The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden. It was designed by Beatrix Farrand and had a Very nice Moss garden section outside of the walls of the garden itself that was absolutely stunning. Seeing your lovely photos this morning reminded me of that lovely memory. Thank you
I’ll make a note to visit there. I love visiting gardens.
You and your husband have created a gem - absolutely gorgeous and the moss garden is beautiful.
Thank you very much.
Your garden beds are delicate in their richness of texture and subtle color. They are quite beautiful and very peaceful to observe, even through photos. Simply lovely.
That’s very kind of you to say. We derive a great deal of pleasure from the garden.
Gorgeous moss garden you and your husband have created!
I've really enjoyed looking at your garden photos!
Very interesting and for many shady and rooted areas, moss gardens are so intriguing, thank you.
Lovely! I'm smiling as I imagine walking very gently through the moss garden and enjoying that lush carpet of greens under my feet.
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