I am not very good at keeping plants alive and my cats only complicate things by eating the leaves and knocking the pots over, but I would love to have a bunch of plants all over my apartment.
Terrariums seem like a great solution because they only need to be watered about once a month and they are covered. I purchased a wide mouthed round candy dish with a lid at Junk in Williamsburg a few weeks ago and bought a second wide mouth kitchen storage jar from Target to start my collection.
My sister hooked me up with some moss from her front yard this week, and last night I was able put everything together very quickly. I filled the bottom of the jars with peat moss, slapped the moss still attached to some dirt and rocks on top of that and watered them. My sister sculpted some decorations out of polymer clay and voila!
Here is the candy dish terrarium. The bottom glass has waves in it, so I filled that mostly with dirt so the plants and sculptures would sit above the rim
My sister made this guy. He’s perfect. The camera really does not do him justice. He is wearing green shoes with curled toes!
I made the mushroom after she demonstrated how to make one.
It was hard for me to capture how it looks with the lid because of the glare from the light. Had to be there!
This frog buddy lives in the second terrarium. Can you CHECK that sweet moss? I’m going to have to look into what kind of moss this is because it’s super green and grassy instead of the dark short stuff I was expecting.
Green mushroom!
I got that rock in the South Dakota Badlands on a cross-country road trip Anthony and I took in 2002.
From the outside.
I had a great time making these and I was surprised how easy and inexpensive it was to add some green to my apartment. I have a lot of different types of rocks and shells I’ve collected on trips and I think this is a great way to display them. If you (or your sister) aren’t a skilled sculptor this is also a great place to put plastic super heros or old McDonald’s toys.
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