Tempted by a Terrarium To Ease the Winter Doldrums

The Washington Post | February 19, 2009| | Copyright

I don't know if macrame is making a comeback, but you can still get a manual Olivetti typewriter and Doc Martens boots, so it seems groovy that another 1960s icon, the terrarium, remains alive and kicking.

Essentially an enclosed, glazed container, a terrarium could be something as small and readapted as a Mason jar -- or the aquarium or hamster home long since disused -- or something grand and purpose-built. I am thinking of a reproduction Wardian case, the wood-and-glass tabletop greenhouses that 19th-century explorers used to keep rare plants alive during far-off expeditions.

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