In Search of The Perfect Miniature Garden Tree

~ The store was a bit quiet the other day and Steve was looking for something to do. So, I told him to see what was up in the big world of miniature garden trees, fairy trees, railroad garden trees or bonsai starts by just Googling them to see what comes up. Whoa Nellie! Here’s what we found out.

Miniature Garden Trees – Fairy Approved!

Every other online garden center stops shipping plants for the winter! We’ve never shut down for the winter because miniature gardening has always been a season-less hobby for us here in Seattle, but you can do it anywhere. We’ve mentioned before how we can easily keep gardening and because you can plant a container at any time of year. You can plant in-ground anytime the ground is not frozen too. So keep gardening until you can’t, I say!

Checkout the wide variety of hardy trees and shrubs for your miniature garden adventures this season here, search by your USDA zone in the upper left corner. We’ve been shipping plants safely all year long since 2004. If there is any extreme weather happening, we just wait a day or so to clear and then send it. You can let us know to delay any order too, we’re glad to work with you, our fellow miniature gardener. Let us know if you have any questions in the comments below!

Railroad Garden Trees

Miniature and dwarf trees for any garden railroad must behave as expected. This may be why a lot of railroad gardeners shy away from the plant-side of the hobby and tend to focus more on layin’ the tracks and runnin’ the trains through their full-size garden instead of doing the miniature thing – at least in my experience they have.

You see, what happens if a tree doesn’t grow-in as promised, and grows too fast without the engineer-gardener expecting it, it can cause a major renovation and upset for the railroad that was built around that now-overgrown tree. The beauty with railroad gardens is the same as miniature gardening, the age of the garden really brings the charm and magic. So to upset a grown-in, planted scene merely two or three years after planting, will bring the age of the scene back to “0.” Fun if you planned for it but if you didn’t – not-so-much!

All our true miniature and dwarf trees and shrubs are of the highest quality in the country, are very well-behaved and do as the tag says in shape, growth rate and care. Our trees are always well-packed by (quite possibly) the best packer in the country (Steve, for real,) and they are sent the fastest way to avoid any stress, by USPS Priority Mail. We have plants for all sizes of miniature gardens.

Bonsai Starts

In our research, we have found a great many trees that we carry in our online store are used for bonsai as well. I’ve always bragged about how our trees naturally grow-in to look like a bonsai in a couple/few year’s time and while it feels like cheating, we’re just letting nature take its course. It appears as bonsai starts go, ours are pretty inexpensive if you have some time to grow them in for awhile.

Plant your Two Green Thumbs’ tree in a pot at least 8″ deep and let the baby tree grow a thicker trunk and wider branches for a couple/few years. Then bonsai the roots to fit them into the bonsai tray – you’ll be glad you did because you’ll be that much further ahead in the growth of the tree. If you bonsai a young tree right away, it will take much longer for the trunk to develop and the branches to reach out and thicken.

Don’t want to wait? We do get smaller “pre-bonsai” trees in from time to time as well as one-gallon conifers too, if you would like to join our email list to get first dibs.

So, don’t just sit there, anytime is the right time for miniature gardening!