Growing Selanginella In My Garden

I thank the gardening experts who helped me with the ID for this plant. I have been searching for the ID for a long time without any success until I seek the help from the gardening groups that I have joined.

This is the Selaginella moss plant in my garden. It is also known as spike moss, it is somewhere between a moss and a fern. This plant has been with me for many years. A few times it has almost dried up due to lack of water. But after regular watering and keeping the soil moist, it sprang back to life again.

 This is quite an easy plant to propagate. Just break off a stem that has some young roots growing from the underside of the stem, the more roots the better. Then stick it into moist garden soil and keep it in a shady place,

keeping it moist all the time. Very soon, it will start to grow.

 There are a few varieties of Selaginella but I only have this green one in my garden. It is best kept in a shaded place with the soil kept moist.

I placed the pot under the porch. It can also be grown as an indoor plant.

When the colour is pale green, it is in need of water.
If water is not given in time, the leaves will start to shrivel up.

When there is sufficient water, the colour will be healthy green.

It does not need to be fed with fertilizer regularly.

Yes, He humbled you by letting you go hungry and

then feeding you with manna,

a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors.

He did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone; rather,

we live by every word that comes from the mouth of the LORD.

(Deuteronomy 8:3, New Living Translation-NLT)