I guarantee you that anybody could obtain the same results. Latimer's terrarium is not a very good example IMAO. Why?, because is the opposite of a landscape.

I guarantee you that anybody could obtain the same results. Latimer's terrarium is not a very good example IMAO. Why?, because is the opposite of a landscape. There is not design or arrangement possible. The plant just will fill all the available volume and kill any other species in the bottle. The plant inside that bottle is Tradescantia fluminensis. A South American weed that is popular indoors. Can store water in the stems and stand dry periods. Will shrink and regrow and multiply later from tiny chunks of the stem. Is an invasive species in Australia and Europe that will be destroyed only by frost.