The Miniature Garden Business
It’s not every day that one has a chance to build a hobby and bring it to the marketplace. And it wasn’t all warm and fuzzy as some resented my position (I had trolls!) thought it was just a trend (and call it fairy gardening,) while other businesses just outright stole my ideas from me, knowing I couldn’t retaliate because I was such a tiny business.
It’s not exactly gardening because we play with miniatures, and it’s not dollhouse miniatures because we play in the garden. Miniature Gardening is a completely different hobby.
Here are just some of the stories about building this business, and the hobby, that I wrote along the way.
My Have We’ve Grown! New Hobby of Miniature Gardening Celebrates 21 Years
21 Years of making the world a little better, one miniature garden at a time! I guess if anyone is asking how long it takes to establish a new hobby, I think we have found the answer. While it's not everyday a new pastime emerges, you can still join us in spreading,...
How to Find Your Best Friend
I had to laugh when I saw this almost-ancient article at my local model train store. It was taped on to the front of the cash register; I guess I missed seeing it during my many visits to the store. I've never considered myself a "hobby dealer" before but I guess I...
Teaching Gardening In Miniature to the “Experts”
The custom fairy house from the Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop book makes a miniature garden a fairy garden. Simple. But the difference starts with the garden. It’s happened again. The garden industry is taking the easy way out and has got our hobby all wrong –...
The Day the Earth Shook: The Nisqually Earthquake, 20 Years Later
The original Miniature Garden that lasted for 3 years before the container fell apart. The scene is 10 1/2" wide and was 1/6 scale. The Day the Earth Shook: the Nisqually Earthquake, 20 Years Later "You told me to call if I had any earth-shaking news." That was what I...
A Brand New Miniature Garden Center Store!
It's a brand new Miniature Garden Center!! A Brand New Miniature Garden Center Store! Release the doves! Crack the champagne already! Send up the songs of gratitude! Call the press! GET THE CAKE!! It's a brand new Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center Store that is...
Fake News is Infesting our Christmas Tree Traditions
A Miniature Christmas Garden from the Gardening in Miniature Prop Shop book. Click the picture to see our new Christmas Tree Dress Kit, our first Prop Shop Kit. The kit is the supplies needed, the instructions are in the Prop Shop book so you can make easily at home!...
How to Make the World a Better Place: Vote With Your Wallet, Part II
How to Make the World a Better Place: Vote With Your Wallet, Part II I have written previously about using your wallet as your voice as to what products you want to see on the store shelves – and leaving the poorly made crap behind to show that, as a consumer, you...
How to Identify an Expert on the Internet
Gardening in Miniature since 2001. “You can be anybody the Internet!” ~ We’ve talked about this before on a previous blog post, about how the Internet is growing all kinds of experts. I’ve worked online since 2004 and have witnessed a number of great people gradually...
No Room for Miniature Gardening at the Big Northwest Flower and Garden Show?
A fairy garden made by the garden designer's daughter at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show No Room for Miniature Gardening at the Big Northwest Flower & Garden Show? ~ Well, a fairy garden made it into one of the big display gardens at the Northwest Flower and...
Digging Deeper with America’s Favorite Miniature Garden Center, TwoGreenThumbs.com, Part 3
Day 24 :: Milestone - This one took some time to figure out because there were many milestones on this bumpy road. Like the first time the mighty USDA came to inspect our backyard because we ship miniature trees & plants out of State. Or how about the time a...
Digging Deeper with America’s Favorite Miniature Garden Center, TwoGreenThumbs.com, Part 2
Digging Deeper with America’s Favorite Miniature Garden Center, TwoGreenThumbs.com, Part 2 This was an Instagram challenge this past March called #MarchMeettheMaker and I found it was a great way to tell you more about what we do here at America’s favorite – and...
Digging Deeper with America’s Favorite Miniature Garden Center, Part 1
Day 1. Brand Image. This has been our accidental avatar for years now because I took the shot for no reason but to document that brickwork. It was the perfect fit for social media because stands out and it's a perfect way to show what we do here at...
Back to the Future: Predicting The Miniature Garden Hobby
One of the first miniature gardens that we sold in 2001. The patio was made of sand and glass that would get messed up every time I watered it. This was before I invented our Mini Patio Mix Kit, now anyone can create a custom, permanent patio that won't wash away when...
Miniature Gardening: Get Outside and Play
This is showing my age. Lol! Remember when you had to take multiple photos and tape them together to get everything in one shot? THAT'S how long I've been building this hobby - one garden at a time, one blog at a time, one miniature gardener at a time... "If you think...
Miniature Gardening Across the Pond – and Back Again
So cool! We made into the April 28th edition Woman's World Magazine on page 6! Right next to Johnny Cash. Lol! Our mission is to make this hobby as well known as knitting - thank you Woman's World Magazine! Miniature gardening made it across the pond and back again...
Miniature Gardening: It’s an International Affair
Loosely quoted, "With a touch of magic, your beautiful garden will spring from your dreams. A bench leaning against a tree or a small fountain hidden among giant flowers will create a peaceful space you can escape to anytime." Miniature Gardening: It's an...
Miniature Garden Beginnings: Still Crazy After All These Years
The first group shot of Miniature Gardens by Two Green Thumbs, 2002 [From 19/11/2011] ~ In celebration of 10 years of miniature gardening, here is a visual trip back to the turn of the century. Did I make mistakes? - I made quite a few. Did I get weird looks when...
Press Release: World’s smallest garden center celebrates huge miniature garden trend.
A Dwarf Hemlock 'Moon Frost' is delightful for the Miniature Garden FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEhttps://www.TwoGreenThumbs.com November 8, 2011 - The world’s smallest retail nursery, Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center, turns 10 years old this month and is leading the...
If you build it, miniature gardeners will come.
If you build it, miniature gardeners will come... ... to play! We're taking the week to push the new workshop to completion! Steve has been working hard at building this space for months, now he has taken a week's vacation from his real job at Vespa...
