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 ...

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.

In this simple and beautiful DIY project, I turn a glass candleholder into a mini terrarium. A quick, affordable way to bring nature indoors with moss, soil, and a few small plants.

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 ...

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 ...

Save money and the environment by shopping for secondhand glassware and using it in the garden. Everything from wine glasses ...

IT was an unseasonably hot Saturday in April, and the three dozen terrariums on display in a booth at the Brooklyn Flea were sweating, the moisture turning into beads on their glass containers. Katy ...

If you’ve noticed a trend toward transparency, blame it on the latest spin on indoor gardening to tingle the imagination of wannabe gardeners, from schoolchildren to seniors and everyone in between.

Ben Newell creates miniature versions of his work in tiny phials A Royal Mail worker has a growing social media following after hiding tiny terrariums around his home city. Ben Newell started making ...

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 ...

It started with a turtle. Or at least the idea of a turtle. "My partner wanted a pet turtle. He likes turtles," said Derek Smiertka, 40, of Ferndale. "I did not." Nevertheless, in the interest of ...