Looking good!!

Indeed! Keep the pictures coming please.

thanks for your support you all. For now I'm just going to let it grow in. we have the holidays coming I probably won't do anything major with it until after the new year. I will work more with moss and move a couple plants around, but that's about it for now.

Plants are happy!

Very nice! Now you have me thinking about my little 10 gallon aquarium that's collecting dust.

That is looking great.
Gardening in the winter

looks like I may have to pull that African violet and put it in a smaller pot and then bury that into the terrarium. That way I can get it to flower. They like to be a little root bound before they flower.

I've turned a few 10 gal size aquariums into terrariums over the past five years; one I recently donated to a raffle at our botanical gardens but I still have two ten gallon terrariums and also an octagonal tank (I think it's 45 gal) that friends gave me @ three years that I turned into a terrarium. I used to have a few smaller glass containers with lids that I grew plants in as well but with space at a premium I've slowly downsized and no longer have any glass jars planted.

I could take lessons from shadowfax; his/her beautiful terrarium is really a showpiece and puts mine to shame. All of my terrariums have scratched, dirty glass. but the plants seem to be happy; a Pilea cadierei 'Pan Am' is currently in bloom in one terrarium. One of the 10 gal tanks only has one plant in residence; Gloxinella lindiana and that terrarium has been out on the screened porch for a few months with no lid on it. We had temp's of 44ºF here last night and I was surprised to find all of the plants on the porch were okay this morning, including the orchids thank goodness.


Not the best lighting on the two indoors:


Pilea in bloom in one of the 10 gal terrariums:


I was surprised because I didn't realize I had the miniature Chritia tamiana anymore but I found one little plant with a bud in a 10 gal terrarium and two plants in the hex tank!