Best Plants For Miniature Gardens (Resource Guide)
Among all other crafts like knitting, making decoration items, recycle and re-purpose projects, making miniature gardens provides a fun alternative especially for the ones who enjoy gardening and modelling. Some of the natural live plants you can use in creating miniature gardens include; moss used as grass, saplings used as trees, indoor and outdoor small plants such as ferns, spider plants and cacti, and small flowers such as violets used as flowers! Inanimate objects include; sand, bark from trees, sticks and twigs, stones, gravel, autumn leaves and conker shells.
There are many plants with small leaves and flowers that suit fairy gardens, garden railroads or a small scale container garden, a few plants stand out for their ability to mimic larger plants when placed next to scale buildings, furniture or figures. If you have children around, get them involved too! This would be a great summer activity for them! Be creative – hit the link below and create your own miniature garden.