Container Gardening Tips & Plans : Pt 2: Terrarium Gardens: Container Gardening Tips ...
Part 2 - Learn how to create a terrarium container garden in this free home gardening video. Get beginner gardening tips, ideas & advice ...
For armchair gardeners pining for spring
“Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love,’’ by Julie Moir Messervy (The Taunton Press, $30) takes gardeners through six steps to release their “inner designer.’’ This book helps home lovers make their outdoor spaces as comfortable and beautiful as their interiors. I like the “before’’ and “after’’ photos (which I always find more trustworthy in garden design books than drawings.) In another new book, “The Toronto Music Garden’’ (Julie Moir Messervy Design Studio Inc., $15), Messervy celebrates the 10th anniversary of her garden design collaboration with Yo-Yo Ma. Their award-winning garden interprets the six movements of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 through plantings and pathways that invite different moods. Originally proposed for windswept City Hall Plaza, it met with Menino administration disinterest, and was snatched by the city of Toronto, which arranged much of the funding and permitting in a single day. It’s the public garden that got away.
The Gardener's Eden - Bringing Nature's Beauty Indoors: Terrariums ...
I am very fortunate to live and work surrounded by gardens. Even in winter, nature is part of my everyday life. But not everyone is so lucky. Some of us have friends and family members working in city high rises, crowded into sterile offices or lifeless cubicles. As gardeners, I’d like to think that we can alter this situation, especially around the holidays, by bringing a little bit of nature into these people’s lives. A few years back a friend of mine gave a magical, mist-covered terrarium as a birthday gift to a mutual acquaintance. This gorgeous garden-behind-glass, filled with ferns and moss, inspired me to create one for a nature-lover I know; one sadly trapped inside a concrete jungle.
I have loved building mini-greenhouses ever since grade school, when they were a big fad with my friends. Although terrariums disappeared for awhile, I am happy to report that this indoor gardening trend has returned – and with a ! Terrariums are all the rage right now. The popular craft and decorating blog Design * Sponge has been running spots on glass covered terrarium ornaments and even haunted ‘terror-ariums’ for months, and suddenly it seems that tiny greenhouses are turning up everywhere from trendy restaurants and hotel lobbies to libraries and classrooms. With the surge in terrarium popularity, you might think that keeping plants beneath glass is a new idea. But small-scale, glass covered gardens have gone in and out of fashion for centuries. The Victorians were particularly elaborate, designing exquisite table-top greenhouses and free-standing conservatories in miniature, (usually fashioned from plate glass and forged iron). These days, we are seeing everything from itty-bitty, hanging glass-globe-gardens to enormous, sculptural terrariums; masterful works of art and horticultural science.
Creating a basic terrarium is very simple, and it’s...
Terrarium Containers - News
For armchair gardeners pining for spring
She rediscovers and updates a classic Victorian garden technique in “The New Terrarium: Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature,'' with and more »
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the year's 10 best garden books the year's 10 best garden booksShe rediscovers and updates a classic Victorian garden technique in "The New Terrarium; Creating Beautiful Displays for Plants and Nature," with photographs |
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Gardener's almanac Gardener's almanac a workshop on making a terrarium from 1:30 to 4:30 pm Jan. 13. Kathy Scott will lead the workshop on creating a mini garden in a glass container. |
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GOTHAM ART & THEATER GOTHAM ART & THEATER of poorly connected parts, with a sometimes transparent interior represented by a glass container that functions by turn as a terrarium or a fish tank. |
The Garden Corner
Guest speaker Vickie Hurcomb of Seoane's Garden Center, Abington, will demonstrate how to make a terrarium using a glass container and miniature houseplants
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Let's get crafting to preserve landfill space Let's get crafting to preserve landfill space container that holds orange juice concentrate can become oh, so many glorious and useful things: a painted pencil holder, a tiny terrarium or a little |
