Look! Miniature Garden

We're beginning to think about gardening this summer and bemoaning the fact that our backyard is actually a "concrete jungle" best suited for container gardening which we've never felt very inspired by. Until now! Would you look at this incredible miniature garden??

We can't tell you much about it unfortunately - posted on Flickr, apparently by a neighbor, it's the handiwork of someone named John Millman. We recognize many of the natural components and the photographer has done her best to identify as many as she can: moss from the side of our building, echeveria (a type of succulent), hens&chicks, weeping rosemary, creeping thyme, a bonsai tree, a small mundo grass, kingsville boxwood, several more plants I cannot remember the names right now, black fine sand, rocks and little bamboo sticks. (See the photo on Danielle Osfalg's Flickr page where she's tagged as many of the plants as she could.)

Kids are drawn to anything miniature and so are we. This has really got the gears of our imagination turning!

(Via Fancy Schmancy)

Comments (14)

Adorable...last year I stumbled across www.weegarden.com and it is amazing...teeny tiny little garden pieces that are perfect for a small container. A friend purchased some of the pieces for a garden for her daughter's birthday and I think they are perfect for creating an imaginary fairy garden.

posted by MKMommy on March 9th 2009 at 5:06pm
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WOW. A perfect way for a renter like myself to get my gardening fix!

posted by Miss*Lisa on March 9th 2009 at 11:39pm
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So clever & wonderful!

posted by hush on March 10th 2009 at 10:50am
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www.twogreenthumbs.com

It has a huge gallery, patio kits and all sorts of fun things. My kids and I have several planned to finish for our patio this spring.

posted by teawithsteph on March 10th 2009 at 11:05am
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Reminds me of the Twiddlebugs on Sesame Street that lived in Ernies's flower box. You can see the clips on YouTube.

posted by KelleyJo on March 15th 2009 at 6:02pm
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thanks for the link to twogreenthumbs.com!

http://www.carinagardner.com

posted by carinagardner on March 15th 2009 at 10:23pm
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hey, reminds me a little of the penjing i just made for landscape design class! (penjing = chinese version of bonsai) http://tinyurl.com/csjpd9

thanks for sharing :)

posted by minta77 on March 17th 2009 at 12:33pm
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Happy St. Patty's Day! Thank you for such a wonderful idea for our Community Garden and all the lovely links. Love Love Love this. Can't wait to do this with the kids!

posted by patois on March 17th 2009 at 5:31pm
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This is too precious! A green oasis no matter where you live!

posted by SuSu on March 17th 2009 at 5:40pm
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So cute, I can't wait to make one!

posted by mamabythesea on March 18th 2009 at 3:45pm
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I love this but absolutely HATE the lighting in my apartment. I had many plants when I moved here a year ago, I'm down to the one last tree that my mom had when I was four years old, and it's just about ready to die now. My windowsills aren't deep enough to hold plants and so the little natural light they get isn't enough.

How I long for and can't wait to have a home with ample natural light from every angle. To awake and go to sleep to natural light filtering in is heaven.

posted by The *Lovely* Patricia on March 21st 2009 at 4:21pm
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Oh wow - Taking the dish garden and terrarium to a whole new level!

posted by ragamuffin on March 26th 2009 at 9:03am
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I want one.

posted by Dbby on March 26th 2009 at 11:24am
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That is fucking awesome! That was an awesome set. Great use of a hen chicks as well. Wonderful plant.

posted by internetdude2 on April 4th 2009 at 2:27am
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