Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

The magic of making terrariums

“I would wait for a day at work to finish so I could get home and take over my kitchen table making miniature gardens”

About five years ago, I began making terrariums. It started with a few friends hanging out at the weekend and making bottle gardens. It sounds funny now, thinking back, but throughout university, while living in London, houseplants played a leading role in birthday presents and moving gifts, the generous spider plant spreading its babies among our group of friends. Living in London we were all constantly moving house. Every year a new bedroom would need decorating and one of the main constants we all had were our houseplants. Making terrariums was just a development of this interest.

As soon as I had made a

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