What’s old is new again. That’s the case with kokedama, a centuries-old Japanese garden form that translates to moss ball. Local audiences are discovering this art form using plants and flowers. “It’s ...
Picture a vibrant green, nearly perfect sphere of something moss-like bopping around a clear water-filled corked container with pebbles at the base. Give it a cute name like Mossly Cyrus, Ryan ...
You may have seen the billboards around town asking that you "Bag the Ball Moss!" and wondered: What the heck is ball moss? Quite simply, it's moss that grows in a roundish, ball shape. The problem: ...
If you bought any moss balls as of Jan. 1, the provincial government wants you to safely get rid of it. That's because some of the balls imported to Alberta, which are popular in household aquariums, ...
The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission (NCWRC) is warning the public to safely dispose of recently purchased aquarium moss balls after the invasive zebra mussels were discovered inside the ...
If you thought the only kinds of "pets" that are allowed to be cute and cuddly are hamsters, guinea pigs, cats, and dogs, you've been sadly mistaken. The Sill has introduced to us the Next Big Thing ...
"Koke" is Japanese for "moss." And "dama" is possibly the translation for "ball," or it could be "tama" and maybe mean "marble." Even though there may be something lost in translation, "kokedama" is ...
RALEIGH, N.C. — Check your fish tank! If you recently bought moss balls for an aquarium, they may contain an invasive species known as zebra mussels and should be carefully thrown out immediately, the ...
Marimo moss balls now are rolling into stylish vases and even into tiny orbs and bottles as jewelry. Consider marimo the moss in your underwater terrarium. Or the floating plant in your aquarium.
At least two Duluth stores have found zebra mussels on decorative aquatic moss balls in their store fish tanks and more infested moss balls may still be on store shelves across the U.S. Doug Jensen, ...
BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Experts say the invasive plant ball moss has been in the Baton Rouge area for the last 20 years. It’s possible you’ve passed by it every day, but didn’t know it existed. It ...
A. Ball moss can be found in many kinds of trees, but it's particularly fond of live oaks, post oaks, hackberries and cedar elms. It is not a parasite and not a true moss, but an epiphyte that is a ...