I've had little luck with my terraria so far. Lisa and I had great fun picking out likely looking glass bits at the Goodwill, but everything I've planted looks wan, or just dead. This is new today, in a family liqueur glass. The tiny chair is one of my Best Things. It's right at home here. I'd like to be able to sit in it.Lisa's terrarium is doing well, I hear. Let's hear the advice, Lisa.
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I love these little flowers and I can't really see the chair. Post more pictures?
ReplyDeleteI think to get terraria started, especially mossy ones, they need to be totally humid all the time, i.e. they need a lid. Did you put horticultural charcoal in? Then you can lid 'em up and it won't get all gross in there. On the other hand, the glass fogs. On the other hand, my moss actually SPROUTED after about three days under those conditions. I've been out of town for ten days so I look forward to getting home and discovering what the moss does with its seeds, when confined to a jar.
Also weeds -- beautiful, tiny weeds -- are growing from the soil I used. If beautiful, if therefore necessary for survival, then not a weed.
I haven't tried lidless with moss -- only leafy plants. And then I water as normal because the glass curling over the top makes no difference as far as I can tell. But how to put a lid on a liqueur glass? I am in an ongoing lid conundrum. Or I would be, if I let myself make any more terraria, but I am trying to quit. No surfaces remain.