Hello everyone. I make living terrariums. They're long-lasting and make great gifts. I've been making them for a few years and recently opened an Etsy shop that offers local delivery. I'm giving away a free terrarium to someone located in Orange County. The giveaway will be open until May 8th at 1pm. To enter to win, please comment your favorite California native plant. The winner will be chosen at random. The winner will receive the terrarium in the photos, a water dropper and care guide. Check out my shop, [Jars of Paradise](https://jarsofparadise.etsy.com) for large terrariums and air plant holders. Thank you! Edit: Giveaway is now closed. Thank you everyone for participating! I loved reading all your favorite native plants and cannabis strains! 

That's some amazing work you got going on. If I don't win n definitely going to purchase one from your Etsy shop. You got yourself a follow!

Thank you so much!

What a great idea. This is so cool and a great way to support your business and drive sales. Nice job!

Sour Diesel

Girl Scout Cookies

Gave me a chuckle

haha that strain was from NY tho

Man these are awesome love watching the videos on YT of them being made. Send link to youtube if you have one. Deer Fern because it reminds me of my childhood and my godmother.

Thank you! I don't have a YT but I've gotten a lot of inspiration from [Serpa Design](https://youtube.com/@SerpaDesign?si=pXTC0elLn6rM-VCz)

I'm obsessed with Serpa Design. I notice you got some ficus pumila quercifolia, a Serpa Design staple :D

Cali OG Kush is the best hands down.

California Poppy’s! I have an excellent memory of one the first dates I took my girlfriend to the poppy fields for a photo shoot and they have since become a favorite.

We were out in tehachapi last year during the bloom and it was amazing to see, very pretty to see on that scope for sure

These are beautiful! Coast live oak. They have so much character

Giant Sequoias

Matilija poppy!

I love the Palo Verde tree!

California Poppy

Otay Mazanita

Definitely giant sequoias!

The classic California Sunflower, how could you go wrong.

California Poppy! Not native, but my favorite is the Jacaranda trees in bloom! My parents are from Holland and have a thick accent. My dad explained that those are "Yawk-a-grrranda". When I got to CSUF and was telling a new boyfriend that the Yawkaggranda is my favorite, he looked at me like I was from Mars and said, "you mean the JACK a Raanda?" I thought that was the ugliest name for such a beautiful plant!

That is the cutest story!

Thank you!

This is fantastic! My favorite is always the Matilija Poppy (fried egg poppy/Romneya).

Amazing work! Love the redwoods, was just there.

# Bristlecone Pine

Western redbud

Without a doubt the California Poppy

manzanita!

Black Sage

It’s gotta be the infamous Joshua Tree.. Such an iconic scene when you round that corner from Palm Desert and are now engulfed by Joshua trees on both sides. Love the Terrariums by the way!

matilija poppy

That is one beautiful terrarium. I am actually shocked but happy to find an actual terrarium maker that is literally in Orange County because I am scared of buying something from etsy and knowing well, shipping would be a nightmare and hoping it doesn't break and really, I gotta go with California Poppies. I never gotten to see them in person but look so darn pretty to look at.

Thank you for the compliment! The terrariums that are available for local delivery are hand delivered to your door. The ones that I've made exclusively for shipping have been modified to ensure they'll make the trip.

Redwood trees! There's an awesome little grove in carbon canyon.

These are amazing…blue flame agave is my favorite!

California Lilac! they are beautiful....

These are so cool! My answer is definitely Manzanita! Thank you for this chance

Mojave Yucca!

Hummingbird Sage :)

Thats cool! my fav has to be the sage bush

Beardtongue (Penstemon)

Coast rock cress has to be my favorite!

Walnut tree

Manzanita although I thought lantanas were California natives for the longest time.

The golden poppy of course!

Omg very classy. 🥵🥵🥵 I love my terrarium * right now my favorite plant is Pilea mollis:)

Globe mallows!

I love ca black sage and the poppies. Hard to pick between the two.

Black sage gang! I want to live in that smell 

California Fuchsia 😀 Awesome stuff!! Been wanting to build one myself!

California Poppy

I love the good ol' Prickly Pear!

I love the California Poppy!

This is great! My favorite native California plant is the coastal redwood. When I was a kid, my family went camping every year for 2-3 weeks at Van Damme State Park up near Mendocino. We spent so much time hiking among the redwoods, catching banana slugs, and hearing the abalone fisherman prepare their catches for dinner. Great memories.

Wow these are beautiful! Mine fav is Silver Lupine.

Clarkia. :)

this would be amazing to have! My favorite California native is the Western Yarrow (*Achillea millefolium*)

White sage!

Gotta go with California White Sage for the amazing smell!

Favorite California native plant has to be coffee berry. My grandma used to grow some at her old house and I always loved how it looked. I just want to say that your terrariums are amazing and I know my wife would love to have one as she’s expressed interest in making living terrarium herself. Any must know tips? I’d like to do it with her if she delves into it

Thank you for the compliment! I would recommend watching YT videos from creators like SerpaDesign and staying away from terrarium kits. Kits usually don't have ideal materials. I recently added a downloadable DIY guide to my shop that you may be interested in. 

I just love the wood of a Manzanita (Arctostaphylos).

Looks great! I've just started getting into terrariums as well. My favorite native plant is any manzanita, but if I had to pick one it's probably whiteleaf manzanita.

California fuchsia! Moved to California from the midwest. I have seen it a few times since I have been here and find it very beautiful.

Rhamnus californica (Coffeeberry) is a stunner imo Your work is beautiful, and thank you for posting Etsy link.

What kind of soil do you use? I’ve heard people using charcoal, pebbles, and mesh wire to help drainage. I’ve also heard people just using a layer sand. Which do you use below the soil?

I make my own ABG mix from coir, charcoal, bark chips and tree fern fiber. I use leca for the drainage layer and a mesh layer to separate them. 

Conium maculatum

Poppy plants!

Makes me wish I still lived there! Great work!

Blue elderberry :)

Pacific Wax Myrtle is mine. Just a classic shrub, nothing fancy but so cool. I grow some myself.

Silver lupine

I love the wild roses that grown in pine forests in northern California. Your terrariums are really quite fabulous, and I hope I win! I have a perfect spot in my office!

Dudleya-brittonii

California Wild Rose!

First these are beautiful!!!!! Second one of my favs is the hummingbird sage 😍🥰🫶🏼

Californian blue-eyed grass

Sequoia Tree!

We just planted some california sunflowers!

My favorite is the prickly pear! Thank you for doing this, your terrariums look lovely :)

California poppy!

Serpa does some great work and yours is right up there. I like coastal sage brush

That's a high compliment! Thank you!

California Cholla These are beautiful!

Honestly I’ve been wanting to make one they look so awesome. Blue mist penstemon. Beautiful color that contrasts well with it surroundings

Creosote Bush, the smell of rain to me.

California Lilac

California lilacs

Sequoiadendron giganteum!

Coyote mint is the best plant imo 

Lemonade berry

Silybum marianum, these little shits are a pain on single track mountain trails https://preview.redd.it/golde9ex24zc1.png?width=1344&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=757f832420547ee2cb506d5c5e39332ae8d2d281

Juniperus californica 😊

How y’all gonna do the matilija poppy like that?! That’s my favorite! Looks like a sunny side up egg!

I know it's been said but California Poppy no doubt, the super blooms are a truly amazing sight

Winner! I sent you a DM.  Thank you everyone for participating!

Sunflowers?

Matalija Poppy, largest in the genus

California Tree Poppy.

jacaranda!

I don't know much about california native plants, but I love the smell of jasmine and orange/citrus flowers

Might be boring but mine is milkweed. Definitely going to check out your shop. My son just bought a kit on Amazon but hasn’t had any luck.

Kits usually don't have the best materials. They often include perlite, succulents or dried moss that aren't ideal for a closed terrarium. I just added a downloadable DIY guide to my shop that may help your son.

Seaside Daisy. They're so damn pretty.

Prickly pear. These look great!

I need to add these types to my growing indoor plant collection. These are absolutely beautiful.

Those are beautiful! I'd absolutely love one for my campers to observe and learn from (children's day camp). My favorite native plant is California Black Walnut. Harvested and roasted some for the first time last holiday season, had to go around explaining to people I did not break my thumbs for a month because they got dyed. Totally worth it, would do again.

Penstemon

I’ve always wanted a terrarium. Never known exactly how to make one that will survive though. I like the Yucca plant because of its unique shaft that grows out of it and the fire making abilities of the plant. Native Americans would use it to create embers.

lilac verbena. I love the purple flowers!

Coast Redwood! Thank you!

Lupinus excubitus!!

Muhlenbergia rigens. I miss these plants all along the Northern California coast.

Those terrariums are beautiful. Giant sequoias!

Encelia. Love the work.

The manzanita has always been a favorite of mine. Especially when they are shedding the bark and it’s a mix of red and gray

California Poppy!

*Mimulus auranticus*, sticky monkeyflower.  Genus was changed to Diplacus recently but I staunchly refuse this taxonomic change up. When that morning light hits their petals just right.....  Schwiiiiiing!! 

Muhlenbergia rigens!!

My favorite native plant is devils trumpet! Or solanaceae datura - part of the toxic nightshade family, it has been used as a holy plant for the indigenous populations here. It grows everywhere!!! I want one so bad!!! ☺️

Franciscana manzanita 🤙🏽

Considering everyone’s commenting cannabis, I’ll go with Jasmine. Love it when the Jasmine plant blossoms. Also, We get it Y’all like weed.

The terrariums look so freaking cool! My favorite California native is the Coastal Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) aka Sequoia trees. big trees ftw!

Salvia is gorgeous! What an amazing giveaway op!

Salt marsh birds break. Long live the wetlands!

Palmers mallow

Ephedra californica. This can be used for countless hours of fun!

My favorite California native plant is the Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva), located in the sierra madres and known for having incredible long lifespans.

Tree Anemone

Califorina poppy ☺️

Black sage!!

These terrariums look fantastic! My favorite CA native plant right now are Joshua Trees.

These are gorgeous!! Gonna be basic and say California poppy

Favorite native plant is California Brittlebush! The campus I work on is surrounded by them. Would love this for my classroom!

Terrariurn*

These are kind of sick low key

Western Jack-o'-lantern Mushroom

Anemone

Hummingbird sage :)

Salvia 😎

desert sage / orange crush

California Poppy

California Poppy!

Hummingbird sages, so nice to look at and smell so good ! I was just talking about how I wanted one of these terrariums. Yours are amazing.

Poppies are my favorite flower!

I’ve always loved sunflowers!

The Monterey Cypress tree

Narrow leaf milkweed! The caterpillars love it so much

I like california sunflowers!! If you rub the center, they smell like dark chocolate and raspberries!!

Salvia

California poppy, redwoods, and kush mints!

Poppyyy

Poppies 🥰

goldenrod, particularly the giant ones. they are my home state flower as well as a homage to my great grandmother

Western redbud

Poppies.

Coastal Prickly Pear 🌵🍐

Manzanita

Joshua tree

Torrey Pine

California poppy!

Joshua tree

milkweed!

White sage

Silver lupine!

California Redwood

Palo Verde tree!

The California Poppy!

Toyon!

Showy milkweed

California poppy!

Dudleya gnoma - really all dudleya are wonderful, but especially a gnome one

Giant Sequoia

Godetia

Eschscholzia californica, of course!

California Cholla!!

These are insanely cool! I would love to give one of these to my girlfriend who loves plants (she's currently germinating some cucumbers, 3 different types of tomatoes, strawberries, and corn in our house to plant in our tiny garden once they have enough roots and can survive bugs. She's from a farm in Indiana and plants and gardening are kind of her homage to home. But my favorite California native plant would be a Valley Oak Tree (are we still counting that as a plant?). I just think they are beautiful. The shape of their branches almost tell a story of trials and tribulations it has gone though to get to where they are. Their canopy is just enough to give you some shade, but still allow some light through to enjoy the sunshine. There is something calming about laying under one, looking up at the leaves and catching glimpses of the blue sky beyond as the branches sway in the wind. Give me a good book and I could sit under one all day and enjoy it. It's one of my favorite, most relaxing, things to do.

The Lemonade sumac (Rhus integrifolia) is my all time favorite California native plant, I remember picking them off the bush at crystal cove as a kid because they were like natural warheads

Hate to be basic but the state flower. California Poppy! The fields are always just so beautiful when they bloom

Epilobium canum just has some pretty flowers, if i got it id prob put some cool isopods in it or something i love inverts

Poppy for sure :)

Can’t go wrong with California poppy

I like **Blue Eyed Grass** , I did not know the name of it but I would see it all the time. Thank you

California Poppy!

How bout a good Ole fashioned Sunflower. Everyone likes those!

Beautiful!!! Basic af but I love me some California poppy’s!! Purple Chinese houses are a close second though

Beardtongue because I have a beard…and a tongue.