Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Miniature Gardening

As most of you probably know, I love gardening. I've been adding perrenials to my flower beds for the past 3 years and they're really coming along. But with the heat of summer, I was looking for something else to do where I wouldn't feel like I was going to drop dead at any second due to the temperature and humidity.  A few months ago I came upon an article about miniature gardening. I found it so intriguing, that I decided to give it a try. Now let me warn you, it's not for the faint at heart. By the time you add finishing touches, you've got quite an investment on your hands. But as I delved deeper into it, I found great shops on etsy to purchase all sorts of miniature items.  I discovered  from a friend that you can add pieces from the toy department like fairies or pagodas from the fish department. Also found items to add from doll house collections. I even found a jewelry shop on etsy that made me some birds nests. I was officially addicted, kinda like the Crimson lip balm thing. So now I have quite a stash of items and have just ordered plants for my 4th miniature garden. Here's my first three, hope you luv them.

FOR SOME DANG REASON, I CAN'T ADD THE PICTURES TO MY BLOG, SO SEE PHOTOS ON THE BOTTOM OF BLOG PAGE....

16 comments:

  1. I'd love to see pics of your mini garden. Are they supposed to be on the post? If so, I don't see them. I'll come back later to check.
    ~Kim

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  2. OooOOO sounds interesting! Can't wait to see them.

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  3. I can't wait to see pictures! Sounds wonderful!(RomanticThoughts)

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  4. very neat, love the lipbalm comment. LOL

    Brandy
    theroyalfamily
    MadeJust4You

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  5. How lovely, I like the mini tile one.

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  6. Wow! Beautiful house with the garden pot

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  7. Oh, those are adorable! Thanks for sharing!

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  8. wow very pretty! you do some beautiful work!

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  9. oh lovely! reminds me of a fairy land!

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  10. they are awesome!!!!! Are the plants hardy??? Maybe I will do one with succlents. I love me a good cactus :)

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  11. Great job!!! It is a relaxing thing to work on a garden.

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  12. I've wanted to try this for quite awhile but like you say it's alot of investment. You've done a great job! One suggestion I can give to save money is to use clippings from other plants and use some rooting compound. I've used that trick for making terrariums before and it saves alot of money on plants!

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