The Miniature Garden Society
The Miniature Garden Society was started in 2015 as a resource for like-minded people to connect and grow together through this wonderful hobby of Gardening in Miniature.
Today, with members from all over the world, this community-website boasts over 200 pages and it filled with inspiration, innovation and information on all aspects of the hobby.
You will not find this type of community any where else.
We’re still growing the website too. With more projects, deeper insight into growing and maintaining older miniature gardens as well as a miniature plant directory, filled with even more insight into how the plants grow and how to maintain them so you can make much better choices for your miniature gardens that fit into your lifestyle.
The following are a few blogs that highlight how very different we are here at the Miniature Garden Society.
To see if you are a good fit for the Miniature Garden Society, find a LOT more about the MGS website here.
Extraordinary Garden Project Grows Slowly With A New Hobby
Jennifer in California said it right, "This fairly quiet little website is deceiving: there is so much information here!" The Miniature Garden Society website has been growing slowly alongside the new hobby of Gardening in Miniature for the last eight years. Eight...
Another Major Milestone for One of the World’s “Smallest” Pastimes
There have been a few major milestones in starting a brand new hobby that have kept me focused on establishing the wonderful pastime of gardening in miniature. And by, "starting a brand new hobby," I mean, creating, inventing and innovating a hobby into existence,...
A Miniature Garden Manifesto
~ If you've been following me for a while, you have probably noticed that I've taken a step back from my websites and my online stores this past year. I didn't write new blogs every single week, I didn’t search far and wide for new plants and accessories like I...
Doing Things Differently: Part 4 – How We Connect
Welcome to the last of our blog series to introduce you to how we do things differently in this hobby of gardening in miniature. ICYMI:Imagine Doing Things Differently Part 1: How We GardenDoing Things Differently Part 2: How We Use PlantsD0ing Things Differently Part...
Doing Things Differently Part 3: How We Miniaturize
Welcome back to our continuing series on how we do things differently with the gardening in miniature hobby. (See Part 1: How We Garden here & Part 2: How We Use Plants here.) Today we are talking about how miniature gardeners use mini accessories differently than...
Doing Things Differently Part 2: How We Use Plants
Our Desert Island Miniature Garden from our Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop shows how we use trees differently than other forms of gardening. A straggly cypress becomes a safe haven for a little tree house. This photo was taken in February of 2016. Are you ready for...
Imagine Doing Things Differently – Part 1: How We Garden
Welcome to our series on how we do just about everything our own way because we have had the amazing opportunity to rebuild this hobby from scratch. But we didn’t just pick up this topic just because it needed updating and saw an untapped market…
UPDATE: Miniature Garden Therapy Mission: Spark Joy!
Operation Spark Joy continues! Steve and I headed south to the Old Soldier's Home in Orting, Wa., to check in on the garden and to decorate it for the Fourth. Miniature Gardening at the Washington Old Soldier's Home Hey! It's working! The response we're getting from...
How to Insert Charm into Your Miniature Garden with Authentic Patios and Pathways
Stone sheets make for a no-brainer solution for the miniature garden patio. Lock them in permanently with the Mini Patio Mix. We’re bringing charming back to the miniature garden. For us here at Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center, it never really left. Why?...
Miniature Garden Therapy Mission: Spark Joy
Operation Spark Joy has begun! Our first installation as The Miniature Garden Society at the Washington Old Soldier's Home in Orting, Washington, south of Seattle. I love it when a plan comes together. After talking to Linda for a minute on that cold, gray...
I’m Taking You With Me – Your Miniature Garden Cub Reporter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNzfZvM5Xso Well, well, well!! It's about time, isn't it? We've been so busy building the new MiniatureGardenSociety.org website for the last two years that it feels really, really good to finally be doing the things I wanted to do with...
It’s Getting Scary Out There – And We’re Not Talking About the Election…
It's Getting Scary Out There - And We're Not Talking About the Election... We're working on some very scary miniature garden ideas for our new Miniature Garden Society! The Day of the Dead flags are completely waterproof, cut out of thin plastic. That's a working...
VIDEO: How to Make a Garden in Miniature with a Mini Patio that Will Last for Years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARbGLE2OtxI Hey, fellow miniature gardeners, here's a short video to show you how to build a miniature garden that will last for years. This is the same way I've been building my gardens since I began in 2001. Some of our miniature...
An Open Letter for Miniature Gardeners and Fairy Gardeners: A Heart to Heart
This is Steve and I in front of our 1/6 scale (GI Joe/Barbie size) miniature garden that we created last summer (2015.) Steve loves this scale because his hands are too big for the smaller sizes. Me? I'm a sucker for anything miniature! Lol! An Open Letter for...
Miniature Gardening Travels Around the World
Miniature Gardens by Elena of Nikosia, Cyprus. A small island off the coast of Turkey, almost directly on the other side of the world from where I am, here in Seattle, Washington, USA. UPDATED - 3-2022 -This photo essay of miniature gardens created by Elena of...