Score + Soldier Terrariums

I spent the last few days scouting some of my favourite shops in Calgary. The best and worst thing about scouting? You come away with a pretty long wish list for your own place. Now that I’m officially moving into a new place with plenty of windows, I’ve decided try my hand at an indoor gardenscape again (something I was once skilled at, then decidedly less so).

These Score and Solder terrariums I spotted at Kit in Calgary are the perfect gateway back in—terrariums love a relatively dry environment, which was my downfall in the past (just how do people remember to water their plants?!).

Score and Solder terrariums, from $110. Available in Vancouver at Old Faithful Shop; in Calgary at Kit

Cool Terrarium Bowl

I’ve decided that my green thumb has officially left the building. There was a period in my teens and twenties when I was actually pretty good at raising my own greenhouse of plants (I worked at a garden centre in high school), but my last unhappy Christmas cactus gave up the ghost last week. Instead, I’m going to go for low-maintenance décor (and possibly the odd cacti), starting with this Glasscape bowl from Aruliden. It’s pretty as a fish bowl, but given my record with plants I’m not going to be introducing goldfish into the mix. Bring on the air plants.Glasscape by Aruliden, $140, available at Pomp and Circumstance in Calgary and online at aruliden.com.