small green world
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As I gradually put away my Christmas decorations, I am a little sad about disassembling the vignettes I created – a group of carolers skating on a mirror pond, a serene stable scene, a lighted Christmas village.
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To see me through the rest of winter I have created another small world in a glass cloche, a moss and lichen garden under glass. I picked the moss before the first December snow and it has done well for a month. The moss leaves are bright and there is new growth on some of the lichen tips. The terrarium even has its own little climate and ‘weather’ – days when the glass is clear and dry, and days when the glass is foggy and you can see a faint mist among the mosses.
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I love the ‘green-ness’ of this miniature world. Green mosses, sheltered by the green leaves of my Lipstick Vine (Aeschynanthus lobbianus) and guarded by my green, four-clawed Chinese dragon. Green candles.
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While the world outside is cold and white, I have this tiny green world to remind me – spring is only weeks away.
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Copyright 2015 Jane Tims
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Happy New Year Jane! What a lovely idea for looking forward to spring.
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dianajhale
January 11, 2015 at 7:39 am
Hi Diana. Thanks. I am going to try and paint this … Green mosses and the glass should be a challenge. Jane
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jane tims
January 11, 2015 at 8:17 am
Your small green world is beautiful, Jane. I really like your dragon, too. 🙂
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Robin
January 10, 2015 at 6:00 pm
Hi Robin. Thanks. It will be interesting to see if it makes it through the winter. I think it will, since the moss seem to like the humidity. Jane
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jane tims
January 10, 2015 at 7:30 pm
What a gorgeous post! I love the photo with the misty edged cloche and the guardian dragon is wonderful. What a good idea to maintain the small green world in this cold winterscape. I miss green inside the house as the one big disadvantage of having the four cats is the destruction of nearly all of my house plants.
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Carol Steel
January 5, 2015 at 8:59 am
Hi Carol. My cat is hard on the plants too. I keep quite a few and they mostly hang up high where Zoe can’t reach! Jane
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jane tims
January 5, 2015 at 9:42 am
I like this idea. Very pretty.
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ladysighs
January 5, 2015 at 7:49 am
Thanks! The cloche is nice to have, but any large jar turned upside down on a plate would do! Jane
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jane tims
January 5, 2015 at 9:44 am
Mine would look exactly just like a large jar turned upside down on a place. 😦 lol Probably a pickle jar. 🙂
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ladysighs
January 5, 2015 at 3:31 pm