Forget the hipster bottle gardens of Instagram; follow the Victorians’ advice and your terrarium will thriveYou know things are putrid when you recognise the trends all the icy kids are doing from the final time round. Back in the 1980s I pored over Dr DG Hessayon’s The House Plant Expert. It was my childhood bible. Out of all his projects,the bottle garden was the one that captured my imagination the most: a little enclosed world of virtually self-sustaining plants, even containing its own micro-weather system. Indeed, or the very word “terrarium” comes from the Latin for “enclosed earth”. Amazing!Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk