Ready-made. We build and pack the terrarium for you, so it arrives finished. This is the safer option for a client gift or for anyone you are not sure has the time or interest to assemble one themselves.

A DIY kit. Glass, drainage layer, substrate, plants and decoration arrive as separate parts, with instructions. Building it takes around forty minutes and doubles as something people actually do together, which is why it works well for a team gift or an office afternoon in the slow week between Christmas and New Year.

Let them choose. Instead of picking one kit for everyone, send a gift card or a link to a small selection of kits and let each employee or client pick their own size and style. This avoids the mismatch of sending a large statement terrarium to someone with a small desk, or a mini kit to someone who wanted the centrepiece version, and it still arrives with the same personalised cork if you want one on every kit regardless of which size gets chosen.

Personalising the cork lid

Every DIY terrarium kit closes with a cork lid, and that cork can be laser engraved with a company logo, a name, a short thank you, or a date. The engraving is burned into the cork itself rather than printed or stickered on, so it does not peel or fade, and most of our corks also have an integrated LED light built in, which turns the engraving into a small lamp after dark.

You can either upload your own logo or artwork for a fully custom cork, or pick from a set of ready designed corks such as a plain thank you or congratulations message if you want something quick and do not need company branding on every unit. If you want the detail on how the engraving itself is made, we cover that separately in how we make our personalised laser engraved cork lids and in personalised terrarium cork lids: create a truly unique gift.

For a handful of client gifts, ordering single kits with a matching engraved cork on each is the simplest route. For a whole team or a client list, ordering as a set is usually cheaper and easier to plan around one delivery date. Our Sam Coffea business gift already ships as a set of 24 bottle gardens with an LED cork included, priced for exactly this use case, and every Christmas terrarium kit in the corporate Christmas gifts collection can take the same personalisation.

As a rough guide: a mini kit around 19 to 20 cm suits a desk or a small gift budget, a 23 to 25 cm kit is the size most people end up happiest with, and anything from 28 cm up reads as a genuine centrepiece rather than a token gift. If you are ordering a mixed batch for a client list with a range of budgets, it is worth picking two sizes rather than one so the smaller gift does not feel like an afterthought next to the larger one.

A client or business partner gift usually wants to arrive ready-made, with a card or note rather than a company logo plastered across it. It works best as a light, tasteful reminder of the relationship, not an advertisement.

An employee gift can go further with personalisation. A first name on the cork, a short thank you for the year, or a company logo reads as recognition rather than marketing when it is going to someone who already works there. If budget allows, letting employees choose their own kit consistently gets a better reception than a single kit sent to everyone, because it removes the mismatch between the gift and the person's actual desk space or taste.