Hey Ken,
Did you ever notice that Spanish Moss has a fine, sweet fragrance when it blooms? It is elusive and fleeting but it IS there! I am like you, I "garden" it. It is not common here in East Texas either but I transplanted it to my trees a decade ago and it has really done well. Many people know where I live.. "Oh, your the one that has the creepy, mossy trees in your yard"...why yes, that is my house I reply proudly.
A friend of mine once decided to "help" me while waiting for me to get back home. He pulled a ton of my moss out of the trees. I pulled in the lane and he informed me that he had gotten rid of a lot of that blood-sucking parasite out of my trees. If I would have had a cane handy, he would have gotten a severe beating. As it was, he was pretty red-faced as I made him put it all back up in to the trees.
