Moss Bowl, Biophilic Decor Planter with Drainage Holes, Drain retailer Hole, Flowing Water Glass, Woodland Landscape Meditation Garden, Ready to Ship

Use this bowl to make a moss garden for your home. Moss and lichen you collect can give any small space a biophilic decor boost, and bring the woods indoors.

This is a sturdy, unglazed stoneware bowl with drainage holes and a drip plate. It has built in melted glass and stoneware landscape features based on the the thermal features I loved when I lived near Yellowstone National Park.
This bowl planter is about 3 inches tall (the 'mountains' are raised above the edge of the bowl to peek out when it is planted up with moss or succulents). It is 6 inches wide and about 2.5 inches deep from the edge of the bowl.

I made this out of 'crank' stoneware clay, which is a very textured, groggy clay that has a slight natural sparkle. It is unglazed. The 'water' in the 'mountains' is melted, recycled glass. I love the way it sparkles and adds a pop of drama because of how the glass flowed from one pool to another. Much of the overflow will be hidden when it is planted up, but you'll know it's there. :)

There are drainage holes in the bottom of the bowl and a drip plate from the same crank stoneware. The drip plate is glazed on the inside, but not the outside, to keep the focus on the contents of the planter--your moss and succulents.
The bowls with moss and extras in the photos are examples. I don't supply the moss or anything to plant up your mossarium. The pint canning jar and apple and other objects are to show scale.
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How to plant your moss bowl:

Put a layer of pebbles at the bottom, and add a layer of coir, potting soil, or very fine bark mulch. Sprinkle with a handful of crushed dry oak leaves or pine needles to keep your planter on the acidic side, since moss likes it a bit acidic.
Add different mosses and lichen. Collect it responsibly from your area, or you can order live moss from many places here on Etsy.
Along with any other natural bits like seed pods or interesting twigs, arrange your moss and lichen with the edges slightly below the edge of the bowl, but letting the moss mound up naturally in places, leaving the tops of the 'mountains' out of the moss. See the example photo.
Once you have your arrangement the way you like it, place it in a bright place, with limited direct sunlight.
Water it three times a week, and mist it with a spray bottle once or twice a day. It won't need to be fertilized. If you leave for a few days, cover your moss bowl with a clear plastic bag, and put it out of direct sunlight. It should be fine like that for 4 or 5 days.

For a very low maintenance bowl, use preserved moss instead of live. Just put in pebbles and put the retailer preserved moss right on top of the pebbles, and it will look great for a year or so.

Or tape over the drain holes and fill your bowl with very fine sand and make a little zen sand garden. You could also plant this planter with a variety of succulents and it would look amazing!

This listing is for the bowl with the melted glass and stoneware 'mountains' only. The other planters with moss in them are for examples, and the other items, like the pint canning jar and apple are to help show scale.