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.
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Miniature Gardening: Favorite Plants for a New Season
Miniature Gardening: Favorite Plants for a New Season Fall has become the best time to plant your trees and shrubs. The summer weather is getting hotter and drier – depending upon where you live, you may have had the exact opposite this year – it’s critical to get...
Miniature Garden Plants: Examples of What to Look For
The subtle flowers on the barberries flush out with the spring growth. ~ It’s that time of year again. The garden is calling but the weather is not welcoming. Gills are starting to grow around my jawbone with all the rain we’ve been having here in Seattle - as I...
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Caring for Your Indoor [Miniature] Gardens
Our regular houseplants got a bit stressed out during the flower show. This is our front room after the cleaning. We kept the two problem pots separated after finding the source and cleaning all the other pots, the shelf and the general area. Caring for Your Indoor...
Miniature Mediation Gardens: Create Your Own Peace
Create a tiny garden place for calm reflection. It's a gentle reminder to take a break and breathe - even if just for moment in the middle of your busy day. ADD MEDITIATION BOOK A little while ago, I wrote about about miniature prayer gardens, and since then, we...
Miniature Gardening Travels Around the World
Miniature Gardens by Elena of Nikosia, Cyprus. A small island off the coast of Turkey, almost directly on the other side of the world from where I am, here in Seattle, Washington, USA. UPDATED - 3-2022 -This photo essay of miniature gardens created by Elena of...
Miniature Garden Plant Focus: The Dwarf Miniature Juniper
The Dwarf Miniature Junipers are terrific plants for the miniature garden, in a container or right in the garden bed. That tall tree in the back is the Miniature Juniper, to the right is the Mother Lode Juniper. Miniature Garden Plant Focus: The Dwarf Miniature...
Miniature Garden Plant Focus: The Pixie Dust Dwarf Spruce
Miniature Garden Plant Focus: The Pixie Dust Dwarf Spruce It can’t be only me. Surely other people do it all the time, but I can’t help myself sometimes. It’s just that this wee tree inspires me to adapt songs and sing to it. Weird, huh? Try this for fun: [Sing this...
The Missing Garden Ingredient: Patience
A favorite mini garden "bedding plant," the Tricolor Stonecrop Sedum with green-gray leaves lipped in creamy white and touched with pinks. Patience is not spoken about often enough in the multitudes of gardening advice found online these days. There are many blogs,...
Why Do Conifers Make Great Mini Garden Trees?
Why Do Conifers Make Great Mini Garden Trees? ~ Why do our true miniature and dwarf trees and shrubs make such great miniature garden trees? Well, let me count the ways! Our miniature garden conifers get better and better with age. The trunks thicken, the branches...
How to Win a Garden Contest
How to Win a Garden Contest By Janit Calvo Miniature gardening has taken off! It looks like enthusiasts have discovered the “fun-factor” and the planting has begun. But beware! All small-leaf plants are not created equal. I was recently browsing through old photos for...
Miniature & Dwarf Plants: The True Meaning
Miniature and Dwarf Plants: The True Meaning When I’m talking plants, I see the word “dwarf” and I think “cute.” But it’s not so cute when the tree towers above the roofline in 10 years! As a gardener and horticulturalist, I’m guilty of overusing the word “dwarf” and...
