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“ I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening;
to me they are one. ”
 – Luis Barragan

A terrarium invites you to paint your own scene, imitating nature on a miniature scale. The dry, hot air of the house in winter is no handicap to plants in a terrarium, where moist air is trapped. Since the moisture is so well conserved, your garden under glass will hardly ever need watering. A terrarium invites you to paint your own scene, imitating nature on a miniature scale. The dry, hot air of the house in winter is no handicap to plants in a terrarium, where moist air is trapped. Since the moisture is so well conserved, your garden under glass will hardly ever need watering.Recommended for closed terrariums plants in Dubai are ferns of small size, such as Polypodium vulgare, maidenhair (Adiantum pedatum) and Pteris (table ferns); mosses of almost every sort; trailing arbutus (Epigaea repens), rattle snake plantain (Goodyera pubescens); common and striped pipsissewas (Chimaphila); wintergreen (Pyrola elliptica); goldthread (Coptis trifolia); hepatica; small yellow lady slipper (Cypripedium parviflorum); and partridge-berry (Mitchella repens). Several of the insectivorous plants are also good terrarium specimens.

Once you have made one garden, you will want more, and you'll get more creative and imaginative with the decorating. One of the great things about fairy gardens in Dubai is that, unlike a real garden, if you get bored it's simple to tear it up and start again. It's a whole new world.

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