Tree sets are now up in the Etsy store this week! Save a few bucks and get a set of trees that can be grown
together, with the same light and water needs. Makes miniature gardening easy-peasy! See this set
here.
The Miniature Garden Soapbox
Whoa Nelly! It's that time of year again when the retail industry amps up for the wholesale shows and everyone is competing for the retailer's attention. After being on the outskirts of this yearly phenomenon, because I seldom can find anything that suits what I do from the mainstream, it's getting kind of ridiculous as "they" try to cater to us, the miniature gardener.
These trade magazines think they know what we want. I think they need to do some gardening in miniature to find out what miniature gardeners want and need. Hmmm? Here are some examples so you can chuckle along with me from the trade mags:
- Molten glass bowls - Huh? It's called dish gardening.
- Swamp houses - Who in the world wants to grow a swamp? Haven't we had enough of the "draining of the swamp??" It would be a stressful scene indeed!
- Apparently wolves are a MUST for the miniature garden.
Quick, how many of you have a wolf statue in your full-sized garden?
- And mermaids are around this year - again. I didn't know mermaids actually LIVE in a garden?
- Miniature garden seeds for basil, marigolds, celery, dahlias or fountain grass - What? These are NOT miniature plants at all.
- And plant tags with fairies on them are only there for one thing: to dupe you into buying them for your fairy garden! They are not great miniature plants at all and will grow waaaay too fast. Don't do it! Lol!
Is no one else in the garden retail & gift industry actually miniature gardening?? Insert eye-roll here.
SO be rest-assured that here at Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center we remain focused on true gardening in miniature.
And no, I won't stray off course just for a buck.
End of rant - thanks for reading! :o)
