HI, your NEW Mini Garden Gazette is here!

Published: Fri, 10/09/15

  
        
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The New! Mini Garden Gazette

Happy Fall &
Happy Thanksgiving
Canada!
Hi ,

Thank you for all the feedback for the new Mini Garden Gazette format that we rolled out last week! Your comments were empowering and heartwarming - thank you!

Most of you mentioned that the new format was easier to read, but lacked the normal juicy-ness of our old format. So, we are making the jump to a smaller, weekly Mini Garden Gazette now to help keep you on top of everything miniature garden at a more-even pace. 

We promise we will keep the new Gazette short and sweet, so you don't need an hour to comb through it. And, we'll keep this same simple format so you can get you back to your miniature gardening asap!

If you want to stay with us - THANK YOU! We will strive to deliver smiles, creativity and inspiration every Friday.  

If you don't want to keep on getting an inside scoop on our original ideas and findings in this new hobby: Unsubscribe at the bottom of this email. We will miss you, we will be heartbroken, lost and lonely for at least a few days, but please unsubscribe below.

If you do change your mind, you can re-join us at any time but note that once these Mini Garden Gazette are sent, there is no other place to read them - not even on Facebook nor in our website - unless you are part of the Miniature Garden Society (more info on this to come soon!) 

Lastly, whatever you do, make it fun,
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Janit Calvo
Head MG, Owner
Two Green Thumbs Living Miniature Garden Center
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Make a Miniature Cornucopia!  

Find a couple of quick, fun project for Thanksgiving
from the Mini Garden Guru blog, click here. 
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It's Not Dying!!

It's called 'conifer dieback.'

It's how conifers shed their leaves. We are very familiar with the deciduous trees, like the Maple trees, Birch or Oak trees, dropping all their leaves in the fall in preparation to go dormant for the winter. Conifers, like Spruce, Pine and Cypress, remain evergreen but shed a few of their leaves too. It's an exfoliation process, just like we need to exfoliate our skin from time to time.

For the young and tiny miniature and dwarf trees and shrubs, they hold the dieback inside their branches and can suffocate the plant - the dead foliage will not let light and air through.
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Do It When You See It
 
To get rid of the conifer dieback: Gently part the branches of your little conifers and slough off the dead stuff to the ground, then clear away the base of the little tree. 

Slough it off whenever you see it on any of your conifers now and throughout the year (usually in fall and spring.) If the leaves aren't sloughing off easily, let them go completely brown until they fall off by just touching them or crumpling them.

See all miniature and dwarf trees & shrubs, click here.

For more winterizing tips, click here.

To see more trouble-shooting tips click here.
Remember:

The BEST time to plant an in-ground
garden is right NOW, in the fall. 

The best time to plant a container
garden is ANYTIME!
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 New in the store this week:
Miniature Garden Signs

See a couple of the first ideas for
our new line of mini garden signs,
straight from our studio! 

Tiny signs to make you smile!

Love Lives Here, click here
Gardener Parking Only, click here

 OOAK Custom Department, click here
Miniature Garden Art Department, click here

ICYMI: Halloween Ideas:

28 Different ​Miniature Garden Ideas
for Halloween!  Click here.




HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING
TO ALL OUR CANADIANS FMGs!!

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