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.

The glass-encased universes called terrariums are back on the scene from the 1970s. The "new" terrarium is different from your mother's model. For starters, it's a lot more stylish. The '60s and '70s ...

In 1827, a London physician with an interest in caterpillar metamorphosis built small glass boxes to contain the cocoons and emerging butterflies. Peering into the “dirt” in one of the boxes one day, ...

The benefits of houseplants are well-documented by now: fresher air, greater productivity, better mental health, and more. Wishing you had a bit of greenery right about now? That’s where terrariums ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Gray continues to be today’s “it” neutral, but as one gray day leads to another come early January in southeast Michigan, I’m craving green. No wonder why terrariums are so refreshing. These miniature ...