Round Three

     Here is the last of three moss gardens I am building for a private client in Wisconsin.  I will not be done with this one until next spring, as there is now snow on the ground.
     This garden is centered on a six-foot tall obelisk from the 1800s somewhere in Europe.  I hope to have some sort of reflecting pool surrounding the obelisk, using black dye in the water for increased reflecting capability.  But other plans might materialize by the spring.
    

     There was originally a wide path off the lawn into a large woods.  Heavy iron chairs and benches were placed around the obelisk, which is about 80 feet up the path.  The plants in the path were mainly sedges and weeds, with some moss among these.  Originally, I planned to kill the sedges and weeds, hoping to not harm the moss, letting it fill in.  Thinking that would take too long, I decided to add an inch of ground and add many pieces of the moss Climacium americanum into the ground.  This moss fills in fairly quickly, and it makes a good lawn-like surface to walk on occasionally.

     Next spring the path will be extended about 200 feet farther into the woods, up a hill and having  two long curves in it.
     The sides of the path are lined with cobblestones made of sandstone, which was quarried in western Wisconsin in the 1880s.  These stones were originally used for a loading dock alongside a railroad landing at a factory site in Milwaukee.