Still like this idea, man.

Oh man, these are adorable :3

I want them all ;_;

Is this easy to do? I've wanted to get a terrarium for my room for ages.
Yours look beautiful ^w^

Very easy. Just get a jar, put some dirt in, stick some moss in there and press it down with whatever you can fit into the top of the jar, screwdrivers work nicely. Start with the smallest plants and work your way up to the larger ones in the 'back' of the jar.

Still not sure these will survive, but hey, its worth a shot. :)

I doubt they will with corks on the top. they will need some air to live. they will just do their usual transpiration and fog up the bottle too wont it?

I actually do open them for a few hours each day.

That looks interesting^^

What plants are those?

I'm wondering the same thing.

I'm not quite sure myself. XD

They're different species of succulents and stonecrop, all of which I have in my own garden though I'll be damned if I remember the actual names of them. Actually I'm curious if they'll survive as they're desert plants that thrive in arrid temps and a closed container might not be the best option, but if they live, awesome! It's very cute and I love the idea. I used succulents in my handmade wedding bouquets and my centerpieces so I was able to get quite an education on how they thrive best. The centerpieces were closed containers but I had to leave them open until the day of so the plants didn't get too wet and had better air. Moss would be better I think though as they tend to do much better in these closed/self condensing containers.

There's also some sprigs off of a tiny juniper that seem to do well on their own as long as they're getting moisture. -shrug- I guess we'll find out. If they start getting to Wilted, i'll be leaving them open more often, but as it is, the moisture in the container seems to be gone pretty quick. We'll just have to see how it goes.. Either way, if they do end up dying, I can always make more or do something else with the bottles.

I was going to say that some of that looks like juniper or spruce. For a moment, I thought it was Norfolk pine, which is one of my absolute favorite varieties of pine. One of those also looks like a tiny bit of a succulent called "hens and chicks".

These are really precious! Do you have a link to a tutorial on how to make these, or would you consider making a quick how-to if not? These would make lovely Christmas presents for a few people on my list this year :)

Put dirt in jar, put plants in jar, starting with moss, press it down gently with whatever you can fit into the jar, screw driver ends work well. Same with the other plants, starting with the smaller ones and working up to the largest, usually positioned in the 'back' of the jar.

Thank you, I appreciate it! I'll have to do some research on which type of plants work best and give this a whirl.

I just used some plants I found outside my house. Some are domestic flower sprigs (durable and very hard to kill.) but most are wild growing, hardy plants.
I'm sure you could probably get some miniature air plant starts, if you're looking for something easy-care and awesome.

I'm really not sure these will survive, but we'll find out. :)

wonder how long they will survive

That's pretty cool looking. Depending on the species of plants and the moisture given, would they last a good while?

Not sure. Dunno what kinds of plants they are, except for the moss. They're all hardy plants, but we'll find out how long they survive. Currently i'm not to sure. -shrug-

I remember doing a similar project in science class where we had to do a wild-growing terrarium with a predator/prey environment. If you put the right amount of water in, the plants surprisingly will thrive in the jar, but you might deal with them growing too large or algae on the walls of the jar!

Algae probably won't be a big issue, but if it is, i'll have to re-do them.. or just let the algae take over. XD
Meh.. I have enough of that in my fish tank right now for some reason. x_X

You could actually sell those if you own a flower shop... x3

Beautiful!

I've been trying to make them myself lately since I found an insane amount of glass baby food jars in our new house! I can't seem to find good plants to stick inside them though arggghh

these are so cute! I love terrariums so much

http://shop.miniaturegardenshoppe.c.....Plants_c20.htm You might want to try here. They have some very awesome little plants for sale. :D

Very cute

Those look nice, I have a "coyote garden" with many of those same plants growing on my deck around and in an old coyote skull that washed up in a storm in the mountains

Ooh, that sounds fantastic!

Hehe, I like that little coyote garden. Coyote spirit is feeding the succulents.

they are all nice "common ground covers"... I see: two types of "green chicks", some "yellow sedum, the stonecrop", a type of "dwarf aloe", and a "woolly betony"...

- "Binomial names" below.

Hens and chicks - Sempervivum cultivarus - though there are some forty Sub-Species that are hard to tell one from the other, unless one is talking about one that is totally; "silver", "red", "purple", "blue", or "covered in hair".

Yellow stonecrop - (Sedum nuttallianum)

Aloe - Asphodeloideae cultivar - though no clue as to just which Species that it is, as there are some 70 plus Species of Aloes that can only really be identified by their: adult-leaves and flowers.

Woolly Betony - (Stachys byzantina)

The first one is correct, stole a couple of mom's tiniest 'chicks' from the garden.

The others aren't though.. I know one is a sprig of ground spreading juniper, and the large spikey, and small white fuzzy one are both sprigs of phlox. And then of coarse there's the moss.. I finally figured out wtf those damn plants are called. I've been looking everywhere for them, and finally, thanks to google, remember what was planted.. -facedesks-

just let air in every few weeks

How long do they last?

Well, they've not died yet, though one of the bottles is randomly cracked somehow.

I tried this a while back inside of evacuated light bulbs (I can teach you that) and the terrarium only lasted for about 2 weeks, then suddenly super-dived in a day and turned into a black mini apocalypse... My advice... maybe bore and fit a small, thin tube in the cork to allow the system to "breath".

I've studied fully self sustaining ecosystems before... and it's extremely difficult to get right...

Very cool though when they do work though! ^,...^

I open these every day anyway, they seem to do better with a bit of air, indeed. :) .. I'm actually surprised the little cuts of plants have survived this long, and have actually sprouted up. o_O

Think they'll grow beyond their means?

Probably not.

Huh... well... keep us updated on how it goes... I'd love to see if this thing can go the distance...

Weirdly enough, they didn't have a chance to grow very much. I put air escape holes in the corks, but apparently it wasn't enough, every one of them exploded. o.O

This is so neat! :D I would like to do this with a round glass container. What could also be cool is if you could figure out how to put the dirt and plant in there so that the plant will stay green forever then fill up the space with some kind of clear material so that you can have the necklace or what-have-you forever, and it will never move out of place

Lovely