When Life Gives You
Lemons A Box of Wood...
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Hi !
We hope this finds you safe, cool and playing with your miniature gardening!
You're probably curious about the headline in today's Mini Garden Gazette. Aside from being a testament to Yours Truly being the Eternal Optimistic and Joker, "it" did start as a box of lemons... until it wasn't.
A few weeks ago, I opened my order for my custom made genuine miniature cedar trellises and decks. The builders said they were so overwhelmed with orders, that they didn't have time to make my wee garden items for lil' ol' me (one of the joys of owning a micro business!) but they could send me the materials to make them myself.
So, they sent me a box of wood.
And they charged me for it - plus shipping.
Yep. I paid it. :o) I think I may have to ply them with homemade cookies to get back in their good graces because, really, it was a box of wood. Lol! (Suggestions on bribing them are welcome - hit
reply...)
But being someone who seems to be ALWAYS thinking of the miniature garden hobby, I looked in the box and said, "Miniature garden art poles!" See more details below...
Please stay safe and keep your young ones safer.
Whatever you do make it fun - and keep it fun,
Above: From the archives. A miniature farm garden. The trees from left to right: Sawara Cypress, Sky Pencil Holly and a Fernspray Gold Hinoki. Created for a Sorticulture Garden Art show exhibit in 2012.
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Exclusively Ours can be Yours! Miniature garden story sticks, story poles - or, quite simply, an art pole. Whatever you want to call them they can certainly light up your miniature garden AND they are fun to make
because we've just made THAT easy to do!
Mix up your own colors, patterns, sayings, scenes or symbols - it's your own story, after all!
From the Mini Garden Guru Blog:
The World's Only Blog Dedicated to the Hobby of Gardening in Miniature
Same garden shown above, photo taken in February. I added the miniature garden to the base of the Fatsia japonica , or Japanese
Aralia, in January. Here's is decorated for Mardi Gras ~> "Laissez les bon temps rouler!"
Plants clockwise from lower left corner: Blue Star Creeper, Baby Tears, Dwarf Mondo Grass, Lawson Cypress, Lemon Cypress, Ellwood Cypress (behind the trunks,) Dwarf Mondo Grass, Coprosma 'Fire Burst', Irish Moss. In the middle, in front of the trunk are dwarf Hens and Chicks and
above that and to the left is Armeria 'Rubrifolia' - or Red-leafed Seathrift. <~> Compare this photo with story stick photos and you'll notice we lost a tree, replanted it with another and now need to tend to the path and perennials...
A HUGE AND VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU
TO ALL THE FRONT LINE WORKERS,
THE FIRST RESPONDERS
AND ALL OUR ESSENTIAL WORKERS!
I'M JANIT CALVO, YOUR FELLOW MINIATURE GARDENER (YFMG)
Seattle, WA. - USDA Zone 7
Thank you for reading!
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ABOUT OUR SHIPPING:
We ship internationally (- but not the plants!)
All shipping costs are checked by Steve and we refund any savings promptly because of our wide range of unique inventory: we ship tiny miniatures, heavy patio materials and living plants, sometimes the automatic shipping calculator "packs" the order in multiple boxes which costs more. Steve can pack better than any online shipping calculator can - if we can save you money on
shipping, we will.
MORE ABOUT OUR SHIPPING: There is some confusion when checking out of our online store and seeing the shipping option of "Priority Mail." Priority Mail is the term the United States Post System calls their services. Anything over 1 pound
gets shipped by Priority Mail. They have done-away with Parcel Post. ~> It does not mean you get "priority" over anyone else's order. It's just what they call it. We are not able to send any order over a pound any other way. We choose to stay with USPS because they are least expensive, 98% reliable and they usually get your orders to you within 3 days at most. We've priced other services and USPS is our choice to save you money and ship your plants to you safely and quickly.
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