Miniature Garden Plants
Finding the right miniature garden plants is key for a realistic scene.
TOP TIP: The best miniature garden tree, shrub or plant that you can choose is a plant that looks like a miniature version of a full-sized plant or tree.
This is our specialty! See what’s in stock today up in our Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center store. Join our email list to get first dibs. And check back often, our inventory always changes. To see our selection and to join our email list, click in here.
25 Years With One Tree: My Love Letter to Jean’s Dilly Dwarf Spruce
It's what caught my eye in the spring of 2001. I had just landed a job at Swanson's Nursery in north Seattle when I spotted these tiny little Christmas trees tucked in among the other conifers. I thought, "Hey! It's a miniature tree!" And that was it. I was already...
Jumpin’ Juniper! Digging for Plant Advice with the Google
Huh? Wha... ? You'll never believe this, I had to go in and correct the Google. Yes, lil' ol' me, correcting the gargantuan Google. I'm not a trained horticulturalist. I didn't go any school for my plant knowledge. All my experience with this garden niche as been...
How to Test Your Indoor Light for Miniature Gardens (Takes 10 Seconds)
Are your indoor plants not thriving — no matter what you do? You water them. You move them around. You talk to them (no judgment — we all do it). And still, something is just... off. Here's what most people don't realize: the number one slow killer of indoor plants...
How to Make a Miniature Garden Tutorial: Choosing Your Plants
Where to Put It and What to Plant A miniature garden is a lot like a full-sized garden. The plants and trees will grow and weave themselves together. It will change from season to season. You may lose a plant — or need to pull one out because it is not behaving as you...
Only at Christmastime? Pity. Get Yours Now.
Norfolk Pines are a sought-after tree for miniature gardeners. It's usually sold as a Christmas tree so it's only available at this time of year. In other words: when you see one, get one! They are one of the few trees we can use for our indoor miniature garden that...
Revolutionize Your Indoor Miniature Gardening: The Secrets You Need to Know
Choose a place for your miniature garden where you can enjoy it. Discover the Magic of Indoor Miniature Gardening! Indoor miniature gardening is a whole different ballgame—and it’s oh-so-fun once you know the tricks. From finding the perfect tiny plants to creating...
More Quick and Cute: Adorable Indoor Miniature Garden Ideas
With a name like Two Green Thumbs, I think I turn-off non-gardeners immediately. If they only knew just how good at killing plants I am, they would probably take away my "two green thumbs" status. So, when I was brainstorming for a Pottery Barn gig as part of the book...
For The Love Of Conifers: The Awe-Inspiring Winter’s Blush
The Winter's Blush is just one of the many perks that growing miniature and dwarf conifers can deliver. When placed along-side the other conifers that don't change in winter, they are truly spectacular. SEE what's available in our online store here:...
Yowsa! Truly Wonderful Plant Combos for Growing The Tiniest of Gardens!
I'm just tickled by each and every order I get from my grower. I've been working with them for well over 20 years and I STILL enjoy opening those boxes and seeing the miniature and dwarf trees and shrubs, looking as wonderful as ever. So, I consider it my job to...
Make Happy Places with a “Little” Indoor Gardening
You can create little worlds that are all your own with miniature dish gardening. Don't Stop Gardening this Winter You don’t have to give up playing with your garden because it's winter, you just have to adjust the size of your garden! I'm not talkin' 'bout just...
Fall Planting: Your Mini Garden’s Best Kept Secret
So, do you want to save time and money on your miniature gardening? Who doesn't, right? Do you want to have a successful miniature garden next summer too? Well, ya. Duh! Did you know you can have BOTH? I do now... Do you know why I keep asking myself these questions?...
Miniature Garden Junipers and Pines Shine in the Summertime
Junipers and Mugo Pines are a perfect choice for summertime conditions – and great for the winter extremes as well. Used as container plants or right in the garden bed, these hardy choices make for less work and more fun in the miniature garden because they can handle...
How to Make a Miniature Garden Tutorial: Indoor vs. Outdoor Plants
With a little compromise, you can have a happy indoor miniature garden that looks like it is a slice of the outdoors. That's a Variegated Boxwood tree, a favorite for indoor miniature gardening because it can tolerate the indoor climate as well as outdoors - AND it...
A Little Miniature Gardening in the Big State of Texas
Most conifers and young plants found in four-inch pots can be enjoyed in the miniature garden for years before they get too big. That is a Blue Star Juniper on the left, and the base of a Compress Juniper to the right of the bench - both would do well in the Houston...
Robert’s Truly Magical Indoor Miniature Water Gardens
Miniature gardening with Robert from Plantaria.com with his magnificent indoor water gardens. The tiny deer tells the scale. ~ With garden show season just starting next week, I'm reminded of all the great miniature gardening that I've enjoyed at the Philadelphia...
Miniature Garden Plant Focus: Hardier Than Thou
Miniature Gardens frozen in time, but they'll come out of this freeze just fine! It’s here again. That freezing, fluffy white stuff is all over the place. That four-letter word that seems to occur annually and stay for least a couple of days each winter. Now it's ice....
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…
Simple Heat Zone Map is Handy for Internet Plant Shopping
The Jean's Dilly on the left, Pusch Norway Spruce on the right. Time to do a little cleaning up of the miniature garden beds now the the weather has warmed up. ~ Do you buy plants on the Internet? Are you wondering how you can know for certain what plants you can grow...
Miniature Garden Plants: Miniature Settings Exhibits Vs. Real Miniature Gardening
NOTE: The photos in this blog are from the Philly Garden Festival in 2014. The Miniature Settings Exhibit has since changed hands, and the quality of the exhibits is apparently very different from what you'll see here. The Philadelphia Flower Show is home to the only...
More About Indoor Miniature Gardening + Gallery
An indoor miniature garden with a Monteray cypress and a Sugar Vine. This pot is about 12" wide. ~ Don’t you just love this hobby? The seasons changing can only mean another miniature garden and now you can make one for the indoors! Do you want a wee...
New, True Miniature Garden Trees are Deliciously Miniature Indeed!
Wonderful new, true miniature conifers are now in stock at your Miniature Garden Center, TwoGreenThumbs.com. Check out the darling little developing cones on the Hildburghausen Miniature Norway Spruce. I am in love!! "One for you. One for me. One for you. One for...
In Search of The Perfect Miniature Garden Tree
The Vilmoriniana Cryptomeria - aka Japanese Cedar is just one perfect tree in miniature that we carry at Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center. True miniature and dwarf trees, shrubs and plants are our specialty! In Search of The Perfect Miniature Garden Tree ~ The...
Round-Up: More About Miniature Garden Plants
Some of the plants used for our Northwest Flower and Garden Show display were chosen as experiments to see how fast they grow up. The Parahebe, the small plant in front of the big Hinoki tree in the front blue pot, 'looked' like a good possibility - until it grew up....
Plant an Effortless Understory for Your Miniature Garden Bed
The White Diamond Sedum is named after the way it captures water in its rosettes - the droplets look like diamonds. It's deciduous in that it dies back a bit in the winter months. A truly charming sedum. I just love that word, "understory." It sounds so...
