At an optometrist's office in Roanoke Rapids, a terrarium has sat atop a table in the waiting room for nearly 50 years. Patients and doctors have come and gone from the practice, but the plants - ...

Where: Station House Community Room, 916 Main Ave., Fargo (near the Red Raven). Info: Register at www.stationhousestudios.org/workshops. Supplies provided; $30 or $15 ...

Doctor Nathaniel Ward made a remarkable discovery in 1829. For safe keeping, he laid a hawk-moth pupa on damp soil in a small glass case. Weeks later, a baby fern and seedling grass appeared, growing ...

In-house conservatory: Elevate your garden in more ways than one with the Edwardian terrarium, which nods to early 1900s British architecture. $395 at Into the Garden, Dallas and Fort Worth. Well ...