Maintaining Your Miniature Garden
Ideas, tips and techniques for maintaining your miniature garden, wether it lives in a container or in-ground.
Top Tip: Grow with it. Go with the seasons and the plant’s natural cycles. Most plants grow most in the spring, maintain in the summer, go to sleep in the fall and rest in the winter. Thinking about what stage the plant’s growth is, this will guide you on when to prune (late winter,) feed (spring & summer,) or divide your plants (late winter/early spring.)
Make it CUTE! More Spring To-Do Tips for Your Miniature Garden
One of my first "big" miniature gardens - perfectly over-planted! Lol! On the left, a Variegated Hinoki is behind a very young Shimpaku Juniper. On the left is a Sawara Cypress but I'm forgetting the variety. This garden was a gift so I didn't see it grow up but I...
Getting Back to the Roots: Why Your Container Gardens Need Better Watering
See below for the details on this miniature garden made with plants, parts and patios pieces from TwoGreenThumbs.com. I finally got a chance to catch up on some miniature gardening this week. I find it's necessary in this life for my sanity—to balance my website and...
Top 5 Expert Fall Tips To Prep Your Miniature Garden For Old Man Winter
Winter is coming...! For the miniature gardeners that have an established garden, here are a few tips to keep in mind as Old Man Winter approaches. Some of these tips are similar to the full-sized garden chores and others are specific to the hobby as we've shrunken...
How to Throw Shade :: 12 Watering Tips For Heatwaves
Here are some tips for keeping your miniature garden, and your full-sized garden, healthy during heat waves. You may be in an area with a water ban as well so it is even more critical to conserve whatever water you can. With proper watering techniques, you can get the most out of your watering even in extreme temperatures.
How to Winterize your Miniature Gardens & Container Gardens
Oh, it looks SO cold! Lol! The miniature garden plants in this container are all hardy to our zone 7 here in Seattle. A few simple steps in preparing for winter can save your containers, pots, miniature gardens or fairy gardens, during an unexpected freeze. Table of...
How To Winterize Your Big Miniature Or Fairy Garden
A family of scrub jays moved in during the shutdown. What a treat to have them visit our miniature garden pond! See our Mini Lake Kit here. AND we also have a Fairy Garden Pond Kit here, like the one shown above. Both are exclusive kits only available at Two Green...
Get Out! Enjoying Spring in the Mini Garden
The Loowit Canada Hemlock in spring. The tiny buds look like ornaments. Very sweet. I've got my fleece hoodie on, my wool socks and a hat - and I'm inside in my office. It's March in the PNW, did someone forget to order spring? I'm itching to get out in my garden and...
9 Easy Steps on The Miniature Garden To-Do List this Spring – for Fairy Gardeners Too!
Preparing for spring, one of our many favorite times of year in the miniature garden. Check out TwoGreenThumbs.com for all your miniature garden plants, trees and quality accessories! The big tree is the Jacquelline Hillier Elm. ~ On the to-do list this spring from...
A Mini Spring Round-Up in the Miniature Garden!
Have you visited out other website yet? It's the HOME of miniature gardening! And a hub for all our work throughout the Internet, we've been online since 2004. Check it out at MiniatureGarden.com! ~ Happy, happy Spring! You just can't beat the first smell of spring in...
Round-Up: Winter Garden Tips for Gardening in Miniature!
Brrr! Our miniature plants and trees do far better in the snow and freezing weather than I do! This was from the 2 week-winter that crippled Seattle for almost 2 weeks in 2008. Here is a quick round-up of winterizing garden tips for your in-ground miniature gardens...
Miniaturizing Mulch for Miniature Gardens or Fairy Gardens
Here is a common question we received from a fellow miniature gardener the other day, "How do I reclaim a garden bed that is full of weeds? Do I use landscape fabric?" My answer: "I would go the lasagna gardening method. After you weed it out as much as possible,...
10 Steps to Renovate a 10 Year Old Miniature Garden in 10 Minutes
I started the seeds in 2005, the pot finally cracked in July 2015. Time to repot! "Don't just sit there, grow a tree!" is my first thought whenever I see the box that's been kicking around the office since 2005. I've kept it for reference because this is - so far -...
Tips and Techniques: How to Renovate an Existing Miniature Garden
A pretty miniature garden scene. This photo was take about 6 weeks after the project photos were done for our Gardening in Miniature book. The tree is a Jacqueline Hillier Elm, the two globe-shaped shrubs on either side are White Pygmy Dwarf Cypress. Renovating a...
Top 10 New Gardener Questions Answered
Top 10 New [Miniature] Gardener Questions Answered ~ I asked my mailing list last month, what two questions were foremost on their minds when talking about miniature gardening. The questions that came up in the survey were more than miniature garden questions; they...
