Kate, it seems you and I are caught up in a "moss" discussion on several threads. When you want moss to grow on a mount, I assume you don't mean Spanish moss, right? A lot of my cork has "other" moss growing on it and lots of lichen. Occasionally I will have some moss/lichen growing on an old piece of wood that I have collected, but I have never tried to actually "seed" a mount with moss/lichen. I would not know how to attach it to the wood. I have heard of "feeding" moss/lichen with buttermilk but have never tried to do so. We don't normally have buttermilk in the frig.