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.
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...
How to Save Time and Money on Your Favorite Hobby
The Jacqueline Hillier Dwarf Elm is a great anchor tree for the miniature garden bed - you can easily plant under it as it gets older. That is a miniature Blue Planet Spruce in the back, left side. Sedum Angelina to the right and miniature daisies on the right. The...
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...
Miniature Gardening 104: How to Find the Plants
Tripping through the photo archives: A Miniature Garden from the Northwest Flower and Garden Show Container Display, waaaaaay back in 2004. It was the first year of displaying at this show, followed by 9 more years until the NWFGS rearranged itself and no longer had...
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....
Miniature Garden Fun With Sedums and Succulents
You know how miniature gardeners keep their tiny planted pots happy? We don't plant them. We just put the sedum and succulent cuttings in the wee pots without soil because they can last for a few months before they need to potted-on to a...
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...
MORE Effortless Growing With Proven Miniature Garden Plants
An old Tompa Dwarf Norway Spruce that is now about 16 years old is STILL 10" tall. The cone shape resembles an Alberta Spruce - but in miniature. I cleared away the bottom branches to make the shrub into a tree. Hardy to zone 3 (-40F), it's tough and holds up...
Effortless Growing With Proven Miniature Garden Plants
The mighty Tansu Japanese Cedar - or Cryptomeria japonica 'Tansu' - is a real charmer for the miniature garden. Shown here, it's about 18 years old, (they are 3 to 4 years old when we get them.) Provide evenly damp soil in a part shade/part sun spot and this little...
A Favorite Miniature Garden Tree: The Tansu Japanese Cedar
This Tansu Japanese Cedar has been with us for over eight years. It's 15" tall right now. A Favorite Miniature Garden Tree: The Tansu Japanese Cedar I was cleaning up our in-ground miniature garden the other day and found this miniature garden gem, our Tansu Japanese...
New Miniature Garden Trees for the New Hobby, Part II
The Fairy Puff Sawara Cypress eventually charmed us with its soft, feathery texture and great color. New Miniature Garden Trees for the New Hobby, Part II We are catching up to the new miniature garden plants and trees that we have in stock this season. The last blog...
New Miniature Garden Trees for the New Hobby, Part I
After a couple/few years of letting this Dwarf Wisteria tree grow in, I can prune it back next winter and still have a good-looking tree. The accessories here on one-inch scale. Click the picture to get to the store. New Miniature Garden Trees for the New Hobby, Part...
A Look into the Future: Miniature Garden Trees
From the cover of the bestselling book on the subject: Gardening in Miniature: The Elf Dwarf Spruce stays in a tight canopy and gradually gets bigger as the trunk lifts the canopy off the ground. A Look into the Future: Miniature Garden Trees It’s that time of...
