A new bathmat made of moss is kept alive by the water that drips from your body as you dry.
I’m in Vancouver, where bathmats - and _every_thing else - gathers moss whether we want it to, or not, but I’d have one of those.
Try explaining to the cops that the grow light in your bathroom is for the bath mat.
djm
The grow light in my bathroom is for the bonsai gingko.
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But there are a lot of mosses that can get by with very little light; it’s pretty much an understorey plant by definition,
Bryophyte propagation is a long slippery slope from which recovery can be problematic. Before you know it you’re sinking your tax return into a bioreactor and super metal halide lamps, plus every flat surface in your home is covered with sealed nursery flats filled with green fuzzy stuff. The fidge is overflowing with ziplocs containing material that would get you cited by the health dept. 'cause they would think it was just “dirt.” Hah! what do they know! That’s what Ive heard.
aw man I thought it was about these:
{/dissapointment}
Now I’ll have to save my diatribe about the unigenerational shallow transience of baby-boomer-music for (yet) another thread… 
Eww!
my sentiments exactly.
I always want to run for a can of this
whenever I see them, whole, like that…
I thought that was very pretty and way cool. No chance in @#$% that I’d be able to have something like that inside the house. I do keep a nice patch of moss in the backyard. Thanks simon.
I think it’s obvious that was designed by someone who does not have any dogs as house pets. I can only imagine what my dog would think: “Wow, Mom got ME an indoor toilet, too! Now I don’t have to go outside when it’s 30 below zero!” If the dogs didn’t see it as an indoor restroom, they’d probably eat it. As it is, most of the foster dogs think the indoor potted plants in the low windowsill are a salad bar. None have lifted a leg on those plants yet, but luckily the sill is up a bit high for that.
I have a small bit of wooden deck inside the dogs’ fenced area outdoors, and I keep it swept clear of snow to deter the foster dogs from urinating there. You really can’t blame them: the ground is snow-covered about 7 months of the year here, so they pee on snow; if it isn’t swept it’s hard to tell the difference between the yard and the wooden porch. My own dog was a winter puppy. When the snow started to disappear when he was about 6 months old he had a horrible time for awhile because he didn’t want to relieve himself on bare ground. One fine May day I had the pup out with me in the sunny, melted-clear backyard and my son opened the back door to see why I was suddenly praising the dog so exuberantly. The pup had urinated on the grass for the first time ever, and I wanted him to know it was the right thing to do. 
Hmm. My dog would have been very intrigued, but would have left it alone if I’d told him to.
And I’m trying to get moss into my bathroom, actually. My bonsai came with gross aquarium gravel atop the soil; I removed it a year ago*, but the severe woman in the bonsai store won’t sell me any of her official bonsai moss, because my tree is an indoor tree.
I gather that saying “I don’t care; if it dies off in the fall I’ll pull it off and start a new batch in the spring…” isn’t very zen or something. She looked a bit like she was going to snatch it from me…
Actually, I added that part. I didn’t have it with me, but she looked fierce enough to make me go home and get it.
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*The bonsai store has lovely trees, but they’re of the bonsai school that doesn’t think that tiny ceramic monk or pagoda figurines under a bonsai is kitsch. I am of the opposite school.
You should have screamed at her in your best kamikaze voice, “Ten thousand trees!”
djm
Me too. 
And yes, I like the moss bathmat, but my dogs would dig the thing up and then I’d have muddy feet.