Our Story

Small Plants began out of a sincere desire to engage with nature in the urban environment. We made our first terrarium using what we could source from our immediate surroundings; stones from our driveways, moss from the garage roof, cuttings from our house plants and hand-made tools from wine corks and garden sticks.

After making them for friends and family we received our first commission and soon Small Plants was born. We are dedicated to passing on what we learn through our comprehensive workshops and believe that the terrarium is the perfect way to engage with horticulture in a dense urban environment.

Fundamentally, it's not only about creating aesthetically beautifully objects.

For us it is the deeper fascination with how plants behave and the exciting part terrariums play in the history of horticulture.

Workshop

During our workshops you will not only learn how to build a terrarium but receive a comprehensive overview of their exciting history dating back to Victorian London; we will guide you through how an arbitrary curiosity changed the world of botanical research and indoor gardening forever.

Throughout the demonstration you will be shown all the necessary components to build a terrarium. We will explore a variety of plants and mosses and demonstrate how accessible building a terrarium can be using our lovingly hand-made tools. We will also describe in detail exactly how and why a terrarium creates it's own water-cycle and self contained ecosystem.

Feel free to ask any questions along the way and by the end of the session you will have your own exciting terrarium to take away and watch develop.

All contents, glass vessels and tools are supplied. You will also be given a hand screen printed London Terrariums tote bag and a care guide.

Saturday

2:00pm

Workshop - Closed Terrarium

Sunday

4:00pm

Workshop - Opened Terrarium

Chat Time - Plant