The Fairy’s Garden
The difference between a fairy garden and a miniature garden is the intent and the realism. We prefer our fairy gardens look like the fairies made it but you’ll find a range of fairy garden ideas here that include manufactured fairy items too.
TOP TIP: Many of the fairy garden accessories are manufactured without any consideration of scale. Choose your favorite fairy garden accessory, then find other items to match that scale. Otherwise the garden will look cluttered and child-like.
Your Fairies Would Be SHOCKED :: The Truth About Fairy Garden Moss
A tiny miniature garden made from living moss. It will grow together for at least a year if I can keep the moss happy during the hotter summer months here in Seattle. As an amateur consumer advocate, this kind of deception is very frustrating. I know what is up with...
Fairy Gardening: A Dying Trend Grows Into A New Adventure
The fairy garden trend is dead. Now before you go getting on your unicorn and shooting fairy blow darts at me, let me put this in a bit of context. Hint: It never was a trend. We know the "trend" has ended because we are no longer seeing the huge displays of fairy...
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...
Faith, Hope and Pixie Dust: Miniature Gardening With Disney
Get the kid's imaginations working with some hands-on fairy fun and magic in the miniature garden. [Updated from November, 2010.] So, a trip to the toy store the other day to lurk for miniature garden ideas instigated a trip to the video store to rent the latest fairy...
Tinkerbell’s Miniature Fairy Garden Houses at Disney’s Epcot Park
I finally found Tinkerbell hanging out among the flowers. But of course! Where else would she be? Tinkerbell’s Miniature Fairy Garden Houses at Disney’s Epcot Park ~ Okay, how do you get this job? We passed Tinkerbell’s Butterfly Garden almost everyday during our stay...
Fairy or Angel? Here’s a Quick Way to Tell the Difference.
A stroll through Molbak's fairy garden department during Christmas time gave me more than a few examples of the difference between fairies and angels. Fairy or Angel? Here’s a Quick Way to Tell the Difference. I was working on a miniature garden for the Miniature...
Decorating Your Fairy Houses for the Holidays
Decorate more than just your full-sized house for the holiday! A project adapted from the Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop book for a demonstration at the Plow and Hearth store in Marlon, NJ. Decorating Your Fairy Houses for the Holidays I took a couple of pages out...
Growing, Evolving & Updating: Miniature Gardens vs. Fairy Gardens – What is the Difference?
Not a miniature garden but very cute! From the "Our Favorite Miniature Gardens" - and old album from HGTV.com This is an update to a blog that I published on the difference between miniature gardening and fairy gardening in 2010. I opened up a little can of...
If You Like It Then You Better Put a Swing on It: A Fairy DIY
"If you like it then you'd better put a swing on it." These trees have me singing Beyonce all week. Lol! I love it when a plan comes together. Check out how cute these fairy swings are floating in the breeze on these perfect miniature fairy garden trees! You can hang...
April Fools in the Miniature Fairy Garden
Foolin' around with the fairies for April Fools Day with TwoGreenThumbs.com. April Fools in the Miniature Fairy Garden Fooling around with the fairies for April Fool's Day! Find all your miniature garden plants, parts, patios and pieces at TwoGreenThumbs.com I found...
The Trouble with Fairies in the Miniature Garden
Nature's bounty makes awesome fairy garden houses! Clean and dry, covered in lichen and moss - PERFECT for fairy crafting and DIY! If you've followed me long enough you will know that I'm more in-tune with miniature gardening than fairy gardening. But fairies are...
Ideas to Build a Better Miniature Garden & Fairy Garden
Grab a cuppa and enjoy a couple of short videos with a few miniature garden ideas and fairy garden ideas from your fellow miniature gardeners at TwoGreenThumbs.com, America's Favorite Miniature Garden Center. Check out our New and Back in Stock section of our online...
It’s a Miniature Garden and Fairy Garden Round-Up!
Ah, summah! It is my favorite time of year. Things slow down a bit, there is still lots of daylight left to enjoy the evenings and the warm weather makes easier living, no worries about being cold and wet. How is that for optimism as we are in the middle of the...
How to Get the Garden Into Your Fairy Garden
How to Get the Garden Into Your Fairy Garden ~ So there is was, a huge box full of soil with toys scattered about, a plant in one corner and a house in the other. I looked up and took in the gorgeous view of Lake Washington as the sunset lit up the late afternoon sky....
Fairy Gardening in the Archives :: A Wordless Wednesday Blog
Miniature Fairy House for the Miniature Garden Found these rooting around in the photo archives. A miniature fairy house made in 2008, from an old Juniper stump in a 22" diameter water bowl. (Bowl was drilled for drainage.) SEE what plants, trees and miniature garden...
Discover the Truth about Miniature, Fairy and Gnome Gardening
What makes a miniature garden a fairy garden? Discover the Truth about Miniature, Gnome and Fairy Gardening With the surge in interest in miniature gardening over the past couple of years it has been interesting to witness how the many different forms of gardening in...
Have a Very Fairy Christmas Without the Froufrou
A very fairy Christmas tree at one of the local nurseries here in Seattle. ~ Do you like the fairy garden idea but don’t care for too much froufrou? With the recent surge in fairy gardening we are seeing a lot of fairy ideas flitting about with lace, glitter and...
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...
Product Review: Ebook, How to Make a Fairy Garden
Product Review: Ebook: How to Make a Fairy Garden The new ebook, How to Make a Fairy Garden, has been available for about a month now. I thought it was about time to review it – to see what was up. And I was very disappointed. I would have loved to give this a raving...
