Seasonal Themes & Occasions for Your Miniature Gardening
Building a miniature garden around a theme, or adding a theme an already existing mini garden will generate smiles and giggles from all who visit – and it’ll make a terrifically fun centerpiece for your next party too!
TOP TIP: Before you go out and buy more miniature garden accessories for a specific theme idea, see what you have on hand that’s the right color for your occasion, you might have more options on hand than you think. (Examples: red and green for Christmas, or red, white and blue for July 4th.)
Celebrating the Red, White & Grew… In a Miniature Garden!
Happy Fourth, fellow miniature gardeners! I put together a quick video this week decorating one of my larger in-ground miniature gardens for the holiday, and I wanted to share it here along with a few notes on how it came together. This garden already had good bones —...
Make it Cute: How to Work-in a “Little” Pride in Your Miniature Garden
One of the many joys of this very versatile hobby of Gardening in Miniature is the fun you can have playing with it throughout the year. You see, once a garden is planted, whether it's in miniature or a full-size garden, you might have to pull the odd weed and...
Miniature Garden TV: Ultimate Relaxation with Birds and Squirrels
https://youtu.be/bB8ReUcB3CQ?si=E6bkiqGn96BSE6sl So here's a fun experiment I tried recently - Miniature Garden TV! You know those "calming cat TV" videos that are everywhere now? The ones with birds flitting around feeders while your kitty sits mesmerized for hours?...
Growing a New Movement :: Juneteenth in the Miniature Garden
Last Juneteenth, I put a tiny symbol of the classic raised fist in a tiny miniature garden that apparently disturbed a follower on Facebook. Despite the glaring chasm between the huge movement and that tiny raised fist icon in that tiny garden, I vowed to do better....
An Awesome Mother’s Day Gift That Keeps on Growing
Remember that miniature garden I created for my demo at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show this past February? Well, it's been three months now, and let me tell you - it's growing in beautifully! That little garden I started back then has really come into its own...
Real Miniature Christmas Magic In A Real Miniature Garden
A Miniature Christmas Garden from the Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop book showing the Christmas Projects: Snowman Yard Art and the Christmas Tree Dress. Photo is by Kate Baldwin. Oh, Christmas Tree! There is just something about seeing the holidays shrunken down to...
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...
Miniaturizing Winter: The Ultimate Guide to Fake Snow for Miniature Gardens
Experimenting with the different types of snow for miniature gardening is fun - until you have to clean it up. Growing up, my dad had a few oddball sayings. “Don’t eat yellow snow,” he’d say if we did something obviously wrong. He’d throw in “Don’t eat the road...
An Incredibly Scary Little Haunted Halloween Miniature Garden House
A funny thing happened the other day on Instagram. I posted an old, rotted miniature dollhouse and asked, "Alright, fellow miniature gardeners, please help me decide! This is from an old display from a big garden show a few years ago. Should I just trash this...
Make it Scary: Sedums, Minis and Gardens, Oh My!
A cluster of small miniature gardens on a table is a fun way to display your hobby! Just a Little Fun Add a very fun idea to your Halloween decorating this year with a little scary miniature gardens. They are absolutely too fun to make. The possibilities are endless....
Happy Spring! Fun Easter Delights for Your Miniature Garden
Holidays are a grand excuse to show-off your miniature garden skills to your friends, family and neighbors. One little-know fact about miniature gardening is that the gardens can last for years and years. So, when we do have a chance to create a new mini garden -...
How a Happy, Heartwarming Hobby is Helpful for the Holidays
A miniature Maple in a mini garden. I pulled together all my accessories that were in the fall palette to help create the theme for the occasion. Add a decoration or two and you're good to go! This pot is about 12" in diameter and would make a fun centerpiece for a...
Creeping It Real: Halloween in an Authentic Miniature Garden
This miniature garden is one of "those" situations where is seems like an overnight - er, wait, I mean - over-a-year success. However, it took a loooong time to figure out how to get it to this point of just enjoying a true, in-ground garden in miniature. And now, we...
DIY Halloween: How to Carve the TINIEST Pumpkin EVER!
Did you expect anything less from your miniature gardener at Halloween? :o) It's crafty. It's miniature. It's gardeny. It's super cute! We've been carving miniature pumpkins for years here at Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center but this year, we've...
How to Decorate Your Mini Garden for July Fourth in 2 Minutes
Some are called, others are chosen; but for this video project, I was definitely not chosen. :o) I can honestly say I can make an in-ground miniature garden, complete with it's own little lake, a LOT faster than I can make a video. This one took waaaaaaaay too long to...
A Botched Mother’s Day Gift Fixed, With a Little Help
When life gives you lemons… A messed-up gift idea that didn’t pan-out forced me to get more creative that usual for this Mother’s Day. My present couldn’t be shipped Internationally which, being from Toronto, always makes me roll my eyes and laugh. It’s just Canada!...
A “Big” Spring-Easter Celebration in the Miniature Garden
Happy Spring! Happy Easter! Happy Passover! I've been studying on how to make an in-ground miniature garden fun to enjoy and we're going into our second full-year with this miniature garden. Join us for a miniature tour of one of the five sections of our in-ground...
How to Make Simple Valentine Decorations for Your Miniature Garden
Valentine's Day in the Miniature Garden can be loaded with decor - or kept really simple with one or two accent pieces. How to Make Simple Valentine Decorations for Your Miniature Garden Scroll down a bit for the video!Creating a miniature garden is so much fun...
Happy New Year from the Miniature Garden & Two Green Thumbs!
Happy New Year from Janit & Steve, your friends at Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center! As I was writing this description of all the parts and plants in this miniature garden shown above, I was reminded of how rich, fun and rewarding this gardening in...
We Wish You A Merry Little Miniature Garden Christmas
Celebrating Christmas in the miniature garden. There is nothing like a mini Christmas scene to make anyone that sees it say, "Awwwwww!" Cuteness reigns. Our specialty! [All links open to our online store or another page on this website.] The tree is a Variegated...
Make It a Little Special: A Winter’s Solstice in the Miniature Garden
Happy Solstice! It's my most-favorite winter day: The Winter's Solstice. It marks the shortest day in the year but to me it's the day I say, "Spring is coming!" I bet you're looking forward to spring as well. The weather has literally been "for the birds!" We're in...
A Big “Little” World Cup Party in the Miniature Garden
Adapting different themes to your miniature garden is yet another fun way to enjoy the hobby. This miniature garden is from the 2014 World Cup and was also the cover girl for our first Gardening in Miniature book. The tree is the Elf Dwarf Spruce or Picea glauca...
Miniature Garden Goodness: How to Bring the Outdoors Indoors
An Indoor Miniature Garden can look like a backyard in summertime which is why it makes a great indoor subject. You get the joy of being around the plants, the fun little "to-do's" like watering and putzing in the garden, and it's very fun to bring it with you through...
Very Scary Advice: How to Carve Excellent Miniature Pumpkins
Miniature Pumpkins make very cute accents for Halloween! Who ya' gonna call? First published this post 13 years ago, in 2009 - whoa Nelly! But, still the expert in all things miniature and gardening - so there's that. :o) And it's STILL a very cute idea for...
A Little Laboring for Labor Day, in the Miniature Garden
Oh man! The heat! The dirt! The chores! Happy Labor Day? Who needs that? We certainly don't. And, by-golly, we don't have to either. (Yes, I just wrote 'by-golly.' :o) Now, we are going to wish you a Happy Labor Day from the miniature garden because a mini garden IS...
