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.)
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...
Preparing for Old Man Winter in the Miniature Garden
This miniature garden lives in Grandview, Washington. The clients wanted a garden for part shade, hardy, asymmetrical and with a pond. They loved it! The most powerful miniature garden images come from gardens that have been growing and weaving together for years. A...
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...
12 Watering Tips to Help ANY Garden Beat the Heat
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.
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...
Winterizing your Miniature or Fairy Gardens
Take your accessories in before Old Man Winter comes a'knockin' ! They will last longer and won't get damaged by the extreme weather. ~ The rains finally came back to Seattle a couple of weeks ago after a record dry spell of over 90 days. Thankfully, our in-ground...
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...
