March 15, 2009 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google 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 ...

Imagine a perfect, miniature world of greenery and flowers held captive in a clear glass container similar to a ship in a bottle. Peer inside, and you are transported to another climate, another place ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...