The beginner’s guide to starting a terrarium and how to help it thrive

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The beginner’s guide to starting a terrarium and how to help it to thrive

What could be better than a miniature landscape that sits in your living room? Just remember, as you put the finishing touches on your first terrarium and celebrate by cueing the chorus of It’s a Small World : This is a tiny garden, not a scaled-down theme-park installation where the scene is picture-perfect, day after day.

Shallow containers may make good homes for open-dish gardens that are more forgiving, like a bowl of succulents on a sunny windowsill. But in a conventional terrarium – a vessel that has a lid and is closed at least some of the time, or has a narrow opening – the conditions are different. “The plants that do well in terrariums are the ones that are not your common houseplants,” Buzo said. “The best choices don’t tolerate the conditions out in the house, but really need that high humidity.”

Buzo, the author of A Family Guide to Terrariums for Kids, offered this advice: “If you’re mixing plants, pick ones with similar needs.” Custom-made long-handled tweezers, snips and various devices fashioned to dig or smooth soil are among the specialised tools that Buzo, of Doodle Bird Terrariums, uses to create her designs. Bright, indirect light is generally most suitable because many terrarium plants come from tropical understory habitats. But even terrarium plants that prefer direct light – certain carnivorous species, for instance – would cook inside a closed or narrow-mouthed vessel on a sunny windowsill.

 

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