Specialty Gardening: Here's mine, 1 by noknok

noknok wrote:
Sundownr, looking closely, I'm not sure those plants are alive actually.
The whole thing is inside a museum, so most of the plants are probably man made,
that kind of makes it less interesting, but I can see how weather would spoil
all the miniatures pretty fast!

Thanks Bugme, I think I'll maybe cover up the whole thing with a tarp
when the snow comes, it's not coming in.

Seedpicker, thank you, everything was here except the plants. That
made it really quick. The plywood was from an old display turntable somebody broke,
the chinese baby bathtub I got on ebay years ago and the sewing machine
base was from a junk store.

My property has several big piles of stone, all sizes and shapes, want some?
everytime i dig a hole there's more:o)
The gravel is "stone dust" (1/4"- dust) I keep around for concrete and such.

I'll try to bring home the plant labels tomorrow, for the little sedge's name.
A local nursery had all the mini plants.
I've wanted an excuse to get Leptinella for YEARS!

I have no restraints whatsoever in my big gardens, so it was a nice change
to keep this one simple. I appreciate other peoples' whacky and whimsical
mini-gardens, with little regard for scale and full of pigs and squirrels and stuff.
There's a definite fairytale charm there, I'm not sure I could do it, but I like to visit!

Here's a picture from the Stonecrop Gardens in NY, my friend admiring a tiny
rock garden in a huge "trough", that just stuck in my mind for years.
Talk about restraint! But it was magical.