Miniature Garden Designs & Ideas
Find your next idea for a new miniature garden. Inspiration can come in many forms, from a single tree to a special occasion. So, what’s your next miniature garden theme going to be?
TOP TIP: You might have a tendency to overload the miniature garden with accessories at first, and then planting the odd plant or two so you can get a “garden” in somewhere, but consider a tree or shrub or two at the very start of your design process. The miniature and dwarf trees and shrubs will be instant anchors for your garden design, and they will add taller layers to the overall backdrop of the garden bed. Choose slow-growing ones and they will grow along with you, and your hobby.
Decorating Your Miniature Garden for a Happy July Fourth Weekend and Canada Day!
. ~ Here are some fun ideas that you can implement in your own miniature gardens or fairy gardens for the big weekend. Have a safe and fun weekend Fellow Miniature Gardeners! Janit's Insight from 20 Years in the Business: Some of the items in the photos shown below...
Flower Power for Miniature Gardens and Fairy Gardens – Where to Get ‘Em and How to Keep ‘Em!
Ah, spring! It's the smell of cherry blossoms in the air first thing in the morning. It's the realization that you don't need to put on a jacket anymore. You look around you and everything is budding and blooming. Yes! It's finally here and it's time to enjoy the...
St. Patrick’s Day in the Miniature Garden
St. Patrick's Day in the Miniature Garden: We're having fun using the same garden this year for every occasion that we can. ~ Hey it's St. Patrick’s Day weekend! And it's my Grandmother's favorite "holiday!" My grandmother, Nammie we called her, (her real name was...
Celebrating a Little Hanukkah in the Miniature Garden
{From Stardate December 8, 2018] Happy Hanukkah! I've done a fair number of themed miniature gardens over the last 17 years of my full-time study of this wonderful new hobby of gardening in miniature for this blog and for the Prop Shop book, but the Hanukkah miniature...
4 Easy Steps to Grow Your Own Giant Pumpkin – Instantly.
How to Grow a Giant Pumpkin in four easy steps! How to Grow a Giant Pumpkin - Instantly. Our plans for growing a giant pumpkin this past summer dried up with the drought here in Seattle. Luckily, one of my mottos that I live by is: "There is a way around everything,...
Happy Father’s Day from Your Miniature Garden Center
From the archives: A miniature father and baby sculpture. Tots adorbs! See more Father's Day Miniature Gardens here & here. And remember that Fathers love miniature gardens too!
Updating Mother’s Day in the Miniature Garden = A Photo Essay
Come with us for a visit to our Mother’s Day miniature garden that was made just for the Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop book for the Mother’s Day chapter in 2015. The Canada Hemlock tree is about 12 years old now, and looking as elegant as ever!
VIDEO – 28 Miniature Garden Ideas for Halloween Decor DIY
28 Miniature Garden Ideas for Halloween! 28 Miniature Garden Ideas for Halloween Decor DIY If a picture is worth a thousand words, here are 28,000 of them right here in this new 28 Miniature Garden Ideas for Halloween Decor DIY video! Easy Halloween do-it-yourself...
Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop: Mother’s Day
The same garden that is shown in the Mother's Day chapter in the new Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop Book, 2 years later. That is an Abbott's Pygmy Canada Hemlock with Dwarf London Pride below. A short blog series on creating my latest book, Gardening in...
Patriotism in the Miniature Garden
A patriotic miniature garden for Inauguration Day. Honoring the United State of America today! I think it's the biggest ceremony that we have in the US despite who you voted for. We're proud to be the only miniature garden store with a Made in the USA...
Miniature Garden Ideas for Christmas & Winter Holidays
~ Ah! The Big Day is almost upon us! I can feel my tension mounting as my "Oh, I want to do that too!" list keeps growing and growing. If you're like me, sometimes it takes a while to get my momentum up to "turn full-on ELF" and then, all of a sudden, I become...
Happy Father’s Day from America’s Favorite Miniature Garden Center!
Happy Father's Day from the Miniature Garden. Happy Father's Day from America's Favorite Miniature Garden Center! We had fun putting this together for Dad's special day. Have a wonderful Father's Day weekend! Click the photos to enlarge them. The black water bowl...
Miniature Gardening and Mother’s Day is a Perfect Combination
From the archives, photo taken in 2016. This wonderful table and chair set has unfortunately been discontinued. The rest of the accessories, plants, trees and patio parts are available through our online store at TwoGreenThumbs.com Miniature gardening and Mother's go...
Grow Your Own Way for Earth Day
Earth Day always brings about moments of reflection about how I treat our planet. I’ve been a tree hugger, a recycler, a reducer, a re-user, and a plant lover for over 30 years. Mother Earth is now one of my business partners, but it wasn’t a straightforward route to...
April Fools in the Miniature Fairy Garden
Foolin' around with the fairies for April Fools Day with TwoGreenThumbs.com. April Fools in the Miniature Fairy Garden Fooling around with the fairies for April Fool's Day! Find all your miniature garden plants, parts, patios and pieces at TwoGreenThumbs.com I found...
Spring into Easter in the Miniature Garden
Happy Spring! This is a continuation of our super-fun holiday series where we are keeping the same miniature garden, but switching out the accessories to match the occasion or holiday. Find the previous ones here: Valentine's Day in the Miniature Garden St. Patrick's...
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...
Celebrating the Day of the Dead in the Miniature Garden
We've mixed a little Day of the Dead with Halloween this year. Okay, I think I might just have a chance at legitimately scaring you this Halloween. But before I do, let me show you what ideas we've come up with this year for decorating your miniature garden for the...
Ideas to Build a Better Miniature Garden & Fairy Garden
Grab a cuppa and enjoy a couple of short videos with a few miniature garden ideas and fairy garden ideas from your fellow miniature gardeners at TwoGreenThumbs.com, America's Favorite Miniature Garden Center. Check out our New and Back in Stock section of our online...
It’s a Miniature Garden and Fairy Garden Round-Up!
Ah, summah! It is my favorite time of year. Things slow down a bit, there is still lots of daylight left to enjoy the evenings and the warm weather makes easier living, no worries about being cold and wet. How is that for optimism as we are in the middle of the...
In the Miniature Garden With Mom: Happy Mother’s Day!
Happy Mother's Day from Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center! Happy Mother's Day! Hope you are making miniature gardens for Mother's Day. She will love the garden. Then she will love you more for doing that for her, way more than any of your brothers and...
The Evolution of the Miniature Garden
The new, tiny trees and shrubs add another layer of realism to the miniature garden. In this miniature broken pot garden, the Gemstone Hinoki helps anchor the height of the Sky Pencil Ilex and balance it with the cascading garden. Hey! Pssst! Wanna buy a forest?...
Miniature Football Gardening, Superbowl XLIX
I couldn't resist joining the fun. There will be a short pause in the proceedings as Seattle goes nutty for the Seahawks this weekend. It would be negligent to even think of getting any real work done. I'd best join 'em. ;o) See more of the Seahawk Miniature Garden...
Happy Fourth of July in the Miniature Garden
Here's a quick and easy diy for a flag-banner for your July 4th Miniature Garden. Happy Fourth of July in the Miniature Garden After renovating this pretty miniature garden a couple of weeks ago, I was drawn to it again for a Fourth of July theme. I couldn't...
Happy Canada Day in the Miniature Garden
This garden was made for the Lakeside Hideaway project for the Gardening in Miniature: Create Your Own Tiny Living World book. It's two years old now. It was starting to look like my home and native land, Ontario, so I went with it. Taking some downtime and enjoying...
