A garden in a bowl

Handcrafted to include prowling cheetahs and pebbles that say ‘Happy Birthday’, terrariums from a new online store offer an eco-chic way to go green. The store, called The Green Bowl, launched in May.

Handcrafted to include prowling cheetahs, meditating figurines, pebbles that say ‘Happy Birthday’ and miniature teddy bears, terrariums from a new online store offer an eco-chic way to go green. The store, called The Green Bowl, launched in May.

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Designed by Leah Umrigar, 34, a film production executive, these terrariums also make interesting gifting options; Umrigar is working on a special Diwali range too.

“We can customise each terrarium to match the interests of the recipient,” she says. “If you are a fitness enthusiast, for instance, we can create a Zen garden with yoga figurines. For someone who likes motorbikes or cycles, I can build a white pebbled road with tiny models of two-wheelers.”

The Green Bowl combines living plants with rocks, pebbles, coconut husk, peat moss, mud, branches and miniature figures to create the terrariums. Low-maintenance indoor plants such as syngoniam, aralias, lemon spider and agleonema complete the scene.