Desktop Living Landscapes

         

These DIY terrarium kits come with everything necessary to assemble your own desktop living landscape. We include your choice of substrate: moss, polished river stones, or colored sand. As well as one decorative shell or lichen covered stick, one clump of living lichen and one of 10 varieties of Tillandsia, or air plant. 

These terrariums basically care for themselves and will thrive on little more than a weekly mist. Your order will come with a detailed and easy to follow care sheet, but all you really need to remember is not to over water them, they can survive for months just pulling moisture out of the air so too much water will easily drowned them.    

 We have an even wider selection of terrarium shapes and sizes for sale 

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HAPPY GARDENING!!!

Small Bubble Terrarium Kit

This small, bubble terrarium kit is perfect for your home or office! The kit includes a small, 3.5" terrarium, polished river rocks, moss, Lichen-covered branch, and one Tillandsia. Note-each kit is unique, so each plant may differ slightly. 

Air plants are easy to care for, and your order comes with a care sheet that is easy to follow. 

Please note that your kit will come with all parts packed separately.


Available @ www.etsy.com/shop/lhstaytonplants

Lantern Terrarium

Check out this beautiful terrarium for your air plants! This metal lantern terrarium with swinging door will add the perfect touch to your garden, your patio or your home. Picture this terrarium on your bookshelf or your end-table! It's the perfect touch of beauty for your home! 

This terrarium stands 11" tall, by 7" wide and 4" deep. It's the perfect size for indoor or out. Just make sure to keep it in a sunny place if you decide to showcase it inside. Your terrarium will include three species of air plants. *Note, it may not include the exact plants pictured. 

All of the air plants come with a detailed care sheet that provides easy-to-follow instructions. 

A great gift for your loved ones or a great treat for yourself! Get yours today!


Available @ www.etsy.com/shop/lhstaytonplants

Recycled Bottle Succulent Planter

These terrariums make a beautiful addition to any windowsill or sunny area-indoors or out! Our glass, succulent (Echeveria) planters are hand-cut from recycled bottles then sanded to ensure no sharp edges. Each bottle is uniquely hand-crafted for our customers, so bottle size and color may vary. 

The planter comes with your very own succulent and a detailed care sheet that everyone can easily follow.

Your plant will arrive growing in white perlite due to plant shipping regulations. The succulent can be happily grown in the perlite, or if you prefer, you may change it out with the soil of your choice upon arrival.

Available for sale at www.etsy.com/shop/lhstaytonplants 

Air Plant Magnets

These magnets are not your ordinary fridge decor-great for the home or for the office, these air plants are sure to please! Each magnet comes with its own air plant; Tillandsia species vary , so no two magnets are the same-a truly unique gift! 

Each magnet comes with a Tillandsia that is attached to a 1.5 inch cork. Simply apply the magnet to the desired magnetic surface, and enjoy! Don't forget, not only are air plants beautiful, they help to increase air circulation and air quality. 

Plant care: Place plant in sunny area. Once a week, briefly run plant under gently running water.


You can learn more and get your own at www.etsy.com/shop/lhstaytonplants .

Glass Terrariums

Show your valentine that you really love them this year with a beautiful living glass terrarium. Unlike flowers our air plants will stay alive for many years to come with very little care needed! Terrariums come with care sheets that even people with the brownest of thumbs can follow.

Our hand blown glass terrariums look great hanging outside in the garden, in a windowsill, or sitting on an office desk.

They are available for purchase at: http://www.etsy.com/shop/lhstaytonplants

Creating an Arboreal Snake Habitat a.k.a. Python Den!

Never a dull moment around the ole museum!
Last week we donated our very shy Cuban Knight Anole (pictured below) to Moody Gardens, in hopes that it is a male and will mate with Moody's female Anoles.
He was not thrilled by the move and decided to give me a little something to remember him by (a lovely little scar on my thumb).
Today I began cleaning out his exhibit and preparing it for it's new inhabitants, two juvenile green tree pythons. (unfortunately I hear they're a bit bitey as well) However, I don't intend to handle them much.

So what goes into building a python den?
Well these pythons are arboreal, meaning they spend the majority of their lives coiled up on branches in the trees, so I first need to make sure I have plenty of branches for them to coil up on.
(branches: check)
Now it's time to spruce it up a bit! You could use fake plants, but as a horticulturist that goes against everything I stand for.
Side note: When choosing plants for a habitat like this one the thicker the leaf the better. These plants will get very little direct sun light and may get a little stressed so The thicker the leaf the long it will take those stresses to show up. As an ex-bromeliad grower, bromeliads are a personal favorite of mine, but other plants labeled as low light or houseplants will work as well!
(plants: check)

This is as far as I have gotten today, I will update tomorrow with proper lighting, temp., and diet requirements as I get them installed.

Happy Herpatology?