If you love rock garden plants, add rock moss (Dicranum scoparium) to your list. Also known as broom forkmoss and mood moss, this moss can be found across most of the northern hemisphere.

As well as all of this, however, moss can also look great—giving a timeless and magical feel to your garden whether on the ground, on trees or wood, on rocks or stone or brick walls, or on a roof.

After attending the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, rock's first major festival, Moss began adding rock performers, including Cocker, Procol Harum and Free.One of their biggest triumphs was ...