Target.com Fairy Garden Miniatures Set

If you are looking for miniatures to deck out your fairy garden or mini garden, Target.com has a combo kit for just under $30 which includes: a fence, fairy, garden arch, bench, sign, birdbath and watering can.  

Garden Uses for Mesh Clementine Bags

Please excuse this miserable photo taken from Martha Stewart Living magazine.  But the idea is so cool - I had to share.  I'll re-type the above instructions for clarity.

"Landscape designer Leslie Needham reuses mesh clementine bags in a number of different ways when repotting houseplants.  Instead of buying screens to cover drainage holes in pots, she overlaps two squares of the mesh.  She also fills the bags with packing peanuts and puts them in the bottom of larger pots, which keeps them lightweight and provides drainage.  Our gardening editors hang plants with them.  To do it yourself, cut a hole in the center of the bag, and create a well for the plant to rest in with a layer of sphagnum moss.  Then put a small plant with soil inside the well, and cover it with more moss."

Moss Monday: Amazon.com Terrarium Plant Sets

Amazon.com seller Hirts: House Plants provides three and five plant sets of small plants suited for terrarium life (including moss and succulent specific sets).  The above set is the $15 Terrarium and Fairy Garden - five plant set, which includes 2" pots of selected plants:

• Miniature Ferns
• Polka Dot Plants
• Club mosses
• Miniature Begonias 
• Peperomias
• Dwarf Palms

Table Top Bubble Terrarium

Envelop your cherished small plant in a table top bubble terrarium from Ruche.  The 18.5" bubble top acts as a cloche and rests over the plant.   This would be great for a wide-diameter fern!

Mock Terrarium from Target

I think that fake succulents are some of the most realistic looking silk/plastic plants.  Perhaps the fleshy texture of succulents lends itself well to molded plastic.  Here's a neat mock terrarium with plastic succulents from Target - for the black-thumbed miniature gardener.