Robert Pompey worked for 15 months to create the unique garden after volunteering his services to the Department of Forest, Environment and Wildlife Management after arriving in the state in January, 2011.
The garden is built around a 20m x 20m rock graphic phyllite outcrop and has an area of 40 m square. It contains no man-made materials and stones are used to create paths.
The steps are secured by weight and clay alone and path walls are built from discarded vegetation and secured by live vegetation roots.
The mosses (Bryopsida and Lycopodiopsida spp) have been collected mostly from within or around the Botanical garden.
Other seedless plants (eg Marchantiomorpha (liverworts), Anthocerotophyta (Hormworts), Polypodiospida (ferns etc) and some local grasses (Poaceae) and orchids (Orchidaceae) also feature in the garden.
The use of mosses to create gardens has been a Japanese tradition since the feudal era (12th -19th centuries). MORE
