Description

Glass Terrarium – Large Pentagon

Glass Terrarium – Large pentagon

Lets capture nature under glass and create a beautiful mini living art. Designed with glass panels and a sturdy brass frames.

Perfect for your favorite succulents, air plants or even fake plants. The stylish geometric design adds a touch class to any room. All-around terrific terrariums super popular right now.

You may even use them as trinket boxes or jewellery organisers.

Most of the shapes comes with a hanger hoop on the top allowing you to hang terrariums anywhere around the room.

Take a look also to our Glass Terrarium – Lantern Shape

History

A drawing of a Wardian case

The first terrarium developed by botanist Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward in 1842. Ward had an interest in observing insect behaviour and accidentally left one of the jars unattended. As he has noted, a fern spore in the jar grew, germinated into a plant, and this jar resulted in the first terrarium. Consequently, the trend quickly spread in the Victorian Era amongst the English. Instead of the terrarium, it was known as the Wardian case.

According to a story, Ward hired carpenters to build his Wardian cases to export native British plants to Sydney, Australia. After months of travel, the plants arrived well and thriving. Likewise, plants from Australia sent to London using the same method and Ward received his Australian plants in perfect condition. As a result, his experiment indicated that plants can be sealed in without ventilation and continue thriving.