Terrarium in Vase

Zero week old terrarium in glass bud vase.  

I just planted the specimens before I took this photo and the arrangement is still very messy and very wet.  I hope to swab out the bottle once it dries out a bit.  The fern was not the healthiest-looking in the batch but I was feeling impatient and wanted to plant a specimen with fronds already formed.  

Impatience in terrarium-making nearly always ends in disaster.  The old adage "a stitch in time saves nine" is completely true when it comes to bottle gardens.  I can't tell you how many bottles I hastily planted only to have to empty and start from the beginning again down the road due to some oversight in the planting process.