CORVALLIS – If you don’t have space for a garden – or even if you do – a terrarium may be in your future. “Terrariums are an easy way to have some greenery,” said Brooke Edmunds, a horticulturist with ...

Layered landscape terrariums create miniature ecosystems by incorporating layers of soil, sand, stones, and various plants in ...

Terrariums let us peek at nature when we can't slip outdoors. Whether displayed on an office desktop or in a home living room, the miniature gardens under glass assure a daily dose of soothing views.

IS it nature? Or is it art? Painters and poets have long known that the furl of a fern or an orchid’s architecture can qualify as both. Now a growing wave of indoor gardeners is capturing nature in ...

TACOMA, Wash. — In a small store window on South Ninth Street in downtown Tacoma, Wash., there’s an unusual landscape. Strewn across hot white sand like abandoned objects on a “Star Wars” planet sit a ...

If you live in an urban jungle, that term is just about as close to greenery as you may get! For in big cities, where there are space constraints, there is little or practically no connect with nature ...

Creating an indoor mini garden is a fun activity. These miniature gardens are also a great way to entertain little ones with a creative project. It's a hands-on endeavour that takes kids - and us - ...

Planting a terrarium, which is a garden in glass, is a rewarding green thumb project that will provide hours of enjoyment during the winter season. The result may be a delightful miniature, almost ...

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 ...

The glass-encased universes called terrariums are back on the scene from the 1970s. Whether they were giant brandy snifters or dangled from macramé hangers, those ’70s versions definitely tended to ...

MINNEAPOLIS--Learn how to create your own terrarium. Koehler & Dramm’s Institute of Floristry’s associate instructor Lynne Tischler demonstrates how to design this miniature garden with small plants ...