Plant Your Own Miniature Fairy Garden in a Container

Tips for planting a miniature garden.

• Try to make the garden look like a real size garden by keeping the plants in proportion. Small leaved bush plants are great. Trimmed young conifers are great too.
• Use gravel, & flat stones to create paths & patios. Put them in last but one. Add miniature furniture (like the size of dolls furniture) last of all.
• Be prepared to replant & ‘redecorate’ in the future.
• Use any container to plant them. Even the unusual such as an old attaché case, a champagne box, a toilet bowl, or a broken terracotta pot. For more ideas image search online, looking for ‘miniature gardens’ or ‘fairy gardens’.
• If growing indoors beware of over watering & also any drainage water that might ‘leak’ out.
• You can mix indoor & out door plants for an indoor garden.
• Use fresh new compost & if the garden is in a container without holes crunch up some barbecue charcoal & mix if thoroughly through the compost before planting. This helps keep the compost ‘sweet’. About 3 chunks should do.
•  Don’t be frightened to trim or snip plants to keep them bushy. If it’s a flowering plant don’t trim too often as you might keep cutting off the flower buds even when you can’t see them.