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advice from Lord Whimsy

Michael Michaud creates models from natural elements

Nathaniel Ward

Steampunk Garden Terrarium head band All orders from Faerie MagazineThe "Wardian Case" is the perfect blend of Victorian era science and whimsy. It was invented in the early 19th century when Dr. Nathaniel Ward, a British physician with a passion for natural history, noticed that some ferns that failed to grow in his London garden were sprouting quite happily in some sealed jars of soil samples collected from the countryside. Theorizing that perhaps London's notoriously polluted air might be killing the delicate ferns