08/05/2026
Design inspiration from the Montréal Botanical Garden! As we expand our moss empire and begin consulting on larger, more elaborate gardens and landscape designs, our team has been craving more exposure, education, and inspiration
So naturally, we drove north to visit our neighbors in Montréal and spent the day exploring the Montréal Botanical Garden🌿
We explored Japanese, Chinese, aquatic, bonsai, and shade gardens. The aquatic gardens were abundant with liverworts, while the Japanese and Chinese gardens used moss-like groundcovers such as Irish moss and sedum to create soft, sculptural mounds. In the shade gardens, true mosses inevitably appeared between pavers and across weathered surfaces.
The aquatic gardens featured some incredible liverworts!
Even where moss wasn’t intentionally centered, its essence was everywhere: softness, age, texture, restraint, the feeling that the garden had grown into itself.
Although moss wasn’t featured on a massive scale, the mosses that were present demonstrated one of the most important elements of a well-designed garden—something that cannot be manufactured or rushed: the magic that ✨ time ✨ provides.
