Please don't tell Ric

This trailing Jade (Kleinia petraea) has the biggest foliage of plants I've put in a mini. This one has really done some growing this year, a cutting put there earlier this spring. I'm going to cut that long stem off Saturday. It won't survive a hard frost, as I saw from last years' experiments with it, & my area will be flirting with that this weekend. The roots did survive though, low temp for last winter was about 23.

Trailing Jade (Kleinia petraea)

Ric took a ton of cuttings from the Dwarf Coleus. Now we just have to keep them alive and spider mite free till Spring.

HollyAnnS said:Ric took a ton of cuttings from the Dwarf Coleus. Now we just have to keep them alive and spider mite free till Spring.

Ahhh piece of cake...said no one ever!

I don't know if I'm blind or what, but is there a link to the list mentioned in the first post? List on ATP? I'm super new to this forum, and just compiling my own list of stuff that might work in my area, and I'd like to see any and all other lists...

I haven't even decided what scale I want it in, or what plants I'll be getting, what it will go in, or anything. Just that I'm going to DO this. Spent $15 at Michael's last night on mini tool set, water fountain, micro mini gnome (!!!), and a bitty bunny.

Melinda

Hi & welcome!

Let's see if this works (pasting link to completed search of advance characteristics with "suitable for mini gardens" selected.)
https://garden.org/plants/sear...

It seems to be. I hope it works at your end too.

It sounds like you're having a great time already! Made me smile, it's so exciting to get new mini stuff!

It DID, thank you so much!

Yes, it's a ton of fun. I have 6 dinky plants sitting out back, and I've seen a few others I'd like, and then I have to figure out what container I'm going to use (most likely a half barrel, since I know where to get some!) and then I have to figure out what kind of scene I want to have. I'm leaning towards a bath/pool/waterfall in a 'glade' of trees. We'll see how my planning comes, and then how my actual thing comes out. Heh heh heh.

Sounds like you are having a great time with this. Love your idea of the waterfall into the pond.

Oh! Please post photos when you create your scene! Waterfall sounds awesome!!!

I love that idea! I kicked that idea around a few years ago and folks here helped me decide it wasn't practical for me. My house doesn't have any electrical outlets outside, I don't have the budget to invest in a solar-powered water feature, and have to keep my mini garden under a porch roof so it doesn't get drowned when it rains, so the solar panel would have to be remote from the actual garden.

This older discussion might have some relevant food for thought for you:
https://garden.org/thread/go/1...

Gee, I wasn't even thinking a real waterfall. I am so use to seeing the ponds made with somekind of plastic mix so I was thinking the water fall would be done the same way.

I don't have either, and would be impressed with either! I know I could maintain a faux water feature very well. LOL!!

I really don't want faux water in my mini garden. I've seen some amazing ones that I REALLY admire, but that's not what I want. So, if I can't make it happen with a tiny battery or solar powered pump; because I too have no power outside in back, and that's where my mini stuff is going, it won't happen at all and I'll figure out another scene to create. I may, at some point, do an indoor scene of some kind, but my home is pretty dark - hard on plants, AND I have cats, so I will have to design with extreme caution so it doesn't become a) an adjunct cat's water bowl, and b) a splashy splashy toy for them, and c) stagnant ugliness...

At this point, I'm thinking a seep kind of 'water fall', not one with enough volume to 'plinky plinky'. I have seen several rock walls with water dripping or seeping down them, with ferns and mosses growing, and I'd like to try that for myself in miniature. I've wanted to try a seep with moss and ferns for several decades, so I'm not rushing this...

Thanks for this link too, Purple, I will investigate with good cheer! All this idea searching, and methods searching tends to remind me of quilting planning. There are color schemes to suit all of us, there are assembly methods to suit all of us, and there is fun to be had all around. I have some serious fun to anticipate in the new year!

I just found this site. I wish I had seen it last month. I just finished a Fairy Garden display for the Home and Garden Show in my area and I was looking for any ideas. I use many very low growing plants in my fairy gardens. I have seen someone is going to use Thalictrum kiusianum I love this plant and nothing I do seems to bother it. If you are looking for a miniature campanula try C. cochleariifolia I use the cultivar 'Bavaria White' It produces small white bell shaped flowers and each year like all campanulas it spreads. It only grows about 4". Also I love Globularia cordifolia a low ground hugging foliage plant with purple ball shaped flower heads in spring. Most of the plants I try are alpine plants they are hardy and can take cold spells. All of them need good drainage to survive winter but that seems to be the only thing they need. One more that is very cute Thalictrum thalictroides 'Schoaff's Double Pink'

Those are amazing! TY for the post. I've added a proposal to indicate those plants as "suitable for miniature gardening" when someone searches for that attribute.

Love the plants so very cute.