Given the stale air circulating in most urban homes, indoor plants have difficulty flourishing unless they're plied with bushloads of TLC. A terrarium (which is a glass container used to grow and display plants) allows us to go slow on the intense personalized attention by creating a growth environment that requires very little care. Closed terrariums, happy in their humidity filled surroundings, actually thrive on neglect. They need nothing from the outside world except a little indirect sunlight. The plants transpire moisture through their leaves, which then condenses on the glass, and flows back to the soil. This 'rain effect' allows the terrarium to go for weeks without watering. Plants like money plant, spider plant, wandering jews, syngonium, cacti and succulents make for great terrarium residents. Exotic plants like ivy and nana can also go into these bottled gardens. But remember, the thumb rule for the selection of the plant is that it should be slow-growing.

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First get together all the ingredients, so to speak. You will require an untinted glass bottle, bowl or aquarium tank as well as a glass stopper or lid to seal the garden (avoid using corks as they absorb water, depriving the plants of moisture); gravel chips, soil, small stones, brick pieces, sand, charcoal and leaf mould or manure. Small rocks, stone figurines and shells do well as accessories.