It's no ship in a bottle, but it is a novel way to add some low-maintenance greenery to your desk. With a little bit of patience, you can turn a wine bottle into a terrarium. While it may not be the ...

Impossible bottles, or bottles with an object inside that doesn’t seem like it can fit through the bottle’s mouth, have been things of wonder throughout history with ships or decks of cards being ...

TERRARIUM WORKSHOPS* Company: Endurance Designs.* When: 1-2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 27.* Where: Merchants on Main, 607 E. Main St.* Cost: $30, includes soil and plants to create up to three terrariums ...

I came across these wonderful terrariums on one of my favorite retail sites, Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction . They were made by Dave, an inspired enthusiast of the new Pennsylvanian ...

WORLD BUILDING 101Horticulturalist Aaron Shiver and various websites offer the following quick tips for assembling a terrarium:* Choose your container based on the plants you intend to include. Ferns ...

Bottle gardens, or terrariums, are low-maintenance indoor gardens that use a glass container to create a self-sustaining ecosystem. Suitable for plants like ferns, mosses, tropical plants, succulents, ...

Spruce up boring glass ornaments by turning them into terrariums. You can use any clear glass ornament that has a removable hanger. We suggest repurposing an old ornament, or finding on at your local ...

What if you could capture indoors a living vignette of what you see outdoors, along a hiking trail at, say, Myakka River State Park—plant life organically intertwining, varietals intermixed, all ...

Leaves and temperatures are falling. As we prepare landscapes and gardens for winter, look toward indoor plant care to warm the mood. Giving plants for the holidays brings a little sunshine and warmth ...

The traditional plural of terrarium is terraria. But Jen Smith, director of education at Cape Fear Botanical Garden, will stick with Webster's secondary suggestion - terrariums. The first option ...

It's impossible to save time in a bottle, but for terrarium lovers, the renewed popularity of the mini-greenhouses is like revisiting a bygone era a la Jim Croce. Some of us remember the greener times ...

Doctor Nathaniel Ward made a remarkable discovery in 1829. For safe keeping, he laid a hawk-moth pupa on damp soil in a small glass case. Weeks later, a baby fern and seedling grass appeared, growing ...