[Cynthia, Prescott, AZ]

Hi Nancy. I make no distinction myself between watering and misting for my mounties. All get a good dousing of the spray from the hose end sprayer every day, as soaked as they can be. I don't put very much moss on the mount when a put the thing together, just a little, maybe something like a single layer, so that the mount will dry every day. Once the roots start to leave the moss and lock onto the bark, cork in most cases, I may remove some or all of the moss. Tree fern probably holds water longer, but I don't do anything different for them, but then I probably have a little lower average humidity than places not in the arid southwest, and I have a lot of air movement.