A Mini Garden Moment

From the creator of Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center, spreading the joy of miniature gardening throughout the world, one garden at a time, since 2001. Find us at: http://www.TwoGreenThumbs.com!

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Tired of Winter? Tired of Politics? Have NO FEAR...

Tired of Winter? Tired of Politics? Have NO FEAR…

Miniature Garden Society – the best website for Miniature Gardening on the Planet! Tired of Winter? Tired of Politics? Have NO FEAR… …Your Miniature Gardeners are HERE! Ugh. That silly groundhog called for SIX more weeks of winter… Okay, you’re going to have to envision my green cape with my miniature garden logo flapping behind me in the breeze okay? With a green leotard, a mini skirt and really…

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CUTE ALERT! How to Make the World's Smallest Miniature Garden!

CUTE ALERT! How to Make the World’s Smallest Miniature Garden!

  Miniature Garden Kits by Two Green Thumbs. Make a miniature garden for your miniature garden. CUTE ALERT! How to Make the World’s Smallest Miniature Garden! ~ Okay, you know how I always tell you that miniature gardens can make anyone smile? I mean anyone? Well here is another way to guarantee that smile and possibly some giggles too: a miniature garden for your miniature garden! This wee…

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Texas Gardening in Extreme Weather Events

Texas Gardening in Extreme Weather Events

This is for our fellow miniature gardeners in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and any other area down south who are in the midst of shoveling themselves out of a completely catastrophic winter weather event. (I’m pretty sure you have many other words for what is happening right now but I need to keep this polite.)   Miniature Gardening in the Snow: The statue is about 8 inches tall. AND note that…

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Miniature Garden Design 105B: Shrinking the Garden Rules

Miniature Garden Design 105B: Shrinking the Garden Rules

A Mugo Pine that was planted a year an a half ago with Sedum cuttings for a full-sun miniature garden. The anchor point is the Mugo Pine, the focal point is the Cherub Birdbath.

This is a continuation of my Beginner Miniature Garden Series. Here are the previous lessons, just in case you missed them:

 Miniature Gardening 101: The Dirt

Miniature Gardening 102: Indoor vs. Outdoor Plants

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How to Stay Sane During a Covid-19 Election Year with Extreme Weather Events

How to Stay Sane During a Covid-19 Election Year with Extreme Weather Events

Yessiree! Step right up and join the show! We’ve been specializing in escapism professionally since 2001. Personally, escapism is my other hobby, that I’ve been practicing for as long as I can remember.

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I’ve got my parents voices in my head to prove it: “Her head is in the clouds,” “She is always somewhere else…” Or, better yet, I was known as…

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Happy Fourth, Happy Canada Day In The Miniature Garden!

Happy Fourth, Happy Canada Day In The Miniature Garden!

Happy Fourth America! From your friends at America’s Favorite Miniature Garden Center Store: TwoGreenThumbs.com!

Continuing with our series for monthly-themed miniature gardens for July 4th and Canada Day. See the previous gardens here.

About this Miniature Garden: The tree is a Lemon Cypress (aka Monteray Cypress,) with Dwarf London Pride Saxifrage (rosettes,) Blue Star Creeper (larger…

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Miniature Gardening By the Month

Miniature Gardening By the Month

Back in 2013, I did this same series using the same miniature garden but decorated it differently each month to show how versatile this new hobby can be. This year, I’ve been doing the same but only showing my subscribers to my Mini Garden Gazette newsletter and on my Instagram channel here. (Join us for your Mini Garden Gazette here.)

So, I thought to catch up on my blog posting as I’ve been…

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For the Love of Miniature Garden Plants

For the Love of Miniature Garden Plants

For the Love of Miniature Garden Plants

~ “Come on, Sweetie, let’s get going.”

My husband calls delicately, knowing that if the tone is wrong, he may lose me. It was as if he was talking me down from the ledge of the Space Needle.

“Come on, we don’t need anymore plants, you have enough.”

He was right. I do have plenty of plants but, I didn’t have that one.

Hi. My name is Janit,…

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Miniature Gardening at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, 2013

Miniature Gardening at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show, 2013

Preparing for the Marie Antoinette Display at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show this weekend. This is a tiny Hameau for one of our display gardens – the young French Queen sought solace in her faux cottages and farm buildings set up around the palace grounds that make delicious fodder for the miniature gardens! Miniature Gardening at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show

~ Saddle up! We…

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A Miniature Garden Manifesto

A Miniature Garden Manifesto

If you’ve been following me for a while, you have probably noticed that I’ve taken a step back from my websites and my online stores this past year. I didn’t write new blogs every single week, I didn’t search far and wide for new plants and accessories like I have been for the past 19 years, I wasn’t customizing nor creating one-of-a-kind miniatures and kits to help keep me on “top of the…

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Flower Power for Miniature Gardens and Fairy Gardens - Where to Get 'Em and How to Keep 'Em!

Flower Power for Miniature Gardens and Fairy Gardens – Where to Get ‘Em and How to Keep ‘Em!

Ah, spring! It’s the smell of cherry blossoms in the air first thing in the morning. It’s the realization that you don’t need to put on a jacket anymore. You look around you and everything is budding and blooming. Yes! It’s finally here and it’s time to enjoy the April showers – and the April flowers.

And speaking of flowers, did you know that all our “miniature garden bedding plants” flower…

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A Family Affair at the Philly Flower Festival

A Family Affair at the Philly Flower Festival

While sipping tea at the Northwest Flower and Garden Show the other week, friend and fellow Timber Press author, Jenny Rose Carrey, showed me photos of her living room and kitchen.

I must say I was envious.

The entire family took over these two rooms to create and make their entry for the Miniature Settings Exhibit at the Philadelphia Flower Show this year. The kitchen counters were…

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Miniature Garden Plant Focus: Hardier Than Thou

Miniature Garden Plant Focus: Hardier Than Thou

Miniature Gardens frozen in time, but they’ll come out of this freeze just fine! Miniature Garden Plant Focus: Hardier Than Thou

It’s here again.

That freezing, fluffy white stuff is all over the place. That four-letter word that seems to occur annually and stay for least a couple of days each winter. Now it’s ice. Why am I not in Hawaii?

It’s not really what I signed up for by moving here to…

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Celebrating Hanukkah in the Miniature Garden

Celebrating Hanukkah in the Miniature Garden

I’ve done a fair number of themed miniature gardens over the last 17 years of my full-time study of this wonderful new hobby of gardening in miniature for this blog and for the Prop Shop book, but the Hanukkah miniature garden still remains a bit elusive to me. While I completely respect the lack of decorations for this very special occasion because it’s a very nice change from almost any other…

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Celebrating 17 Years of Creating History

Celebrating 17 Years of Creating History

Celebrating 17 Years of Creating History

Whew! Who knew an experiment in starting a business would change garden history – and change miniature history too. Oh wait. We changed the hobby industry and the craft industry and the floral industry…  Lol! I’m tellin’ ya, I only wanted to find a business idea that I could stay with that would keep me interested and engaged so I wouldn’t get bored –  so…

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The World's Smallest Haunted House

The World’s Smallest Haunted House

A funny thing happened the other day on Instagram. I posted an old, rotted 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 dollhouse that’s already deteriorated – or make it into a Halloween House project??”

But I already knew what my friends, fellow MGs and followers…

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Doing Things Differently: Part 4 - How We Connect

Doing Things Differently: Part 4 - How We Connect. Doing things differently can be exciting, motivating and fun but it also can be frustrating, alienating and expensive if you are doing all the research by yourself. If you have followed...

Welcome to the last of our blog series to introduce you to how we do things differently in this hobby of gardening in miniature.

ICYMI: Imagine Doing Things Differently Part 1: How We Garden Doing Things Differently Part 2: How We Use Plants D0ing Things Differently Part 3: How We Miniaturize

Doing things differently can be exciting, motivating and fun but it also can be frustrating, alienating and…

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