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 - ...

When terrariums first hit the scene, the glass-container mini-gardens were nestled in macrame hangers, or sharing a coffee table with pet rocks and lava lamps. But florists and event planners have ...

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 ...

When Nebuchadnezzar II built Babylon's Hanging Gardens for his wife, he was respecting a simple truth: Women dig plants. Guys, too, but few of us have the skill needed to keep them alive. The solution ...

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 ...