Gardening in Miniature: Create Your Own Tiny Living World

Author:   Janit Calvo
Publisher:   Workman Publishing
ISBN:  

9781604693720


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 June 2013
Format:   Paperback
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Gardening in Miniature: Create Your Own Tiny Living World


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Get ready to journey into the huge world of growing small!The next garden trend combines the joy of gardening with the magic of miniatures. Gardening in Miniature is a complete guide to creating lush, living, small-scale gardens. It has everything you need to pick up this new hobby, including scaled down garden designs, techniques for creating tiny hardscapes, miniature garden care and maintenance, tips on choosing containers, how to buy the right plants, and where to find life-like accessories. Inspiring step-by-step projects feature basic skills that can be recreated in any number of designs, like a tiny patio, a trellis, a pond, and a secret garden.Whether you want to build a miniature empire in your garden bed or design a private garden with a pebble patio for an indoor centerpiece, Gardening in Miniature is the primer for creating your own tiny, living world.

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Author:   Janit Calvo
Publisher:   Workman Publishing
Imprint:   Timber Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 18.80cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781604693720


ISBN 10:   160469372
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   18 June 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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Miniature Gardening is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things. Publishers Weekly It will draw beginning and experienced practitioners to this whimsical hobby as art. Booklist Adorable. . . . A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Country Living After reading this book, I came away even more inspired to create my own miniature garden. Beautiful examples of tiny gardens along with easy-to-follow directions. . . . are all included in this helpful book. Birds & Blooms A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Philadelphia Inquirer The author lays out how we might invent Lilliputian versions of our own lives so that we might imagine inhabiting this or that little Eden of our own devising, lovely and perfect little places where all the things we love best in the world could be bound perhaps even literally in a nutshell. BookPage


Miniature Gardening is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things. --Publishers Weekly It will draw beginning and experienced practitioners to this whimsical hobby as art. --Booklist Adorable. . . . A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. --Country Living After reading this book, I came away even more inspired to create my own miniature garden. Beautiful examples of tiny gardens along with easy-to-follow directions. . . . are all included in this helpful book. --Birds & Blooms A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. --Philadelphia Inquirer The author lays out how we might invent Lilliputian versions of our own lives so that we might imagine inhabiting this or that little Eden of our own devising, lovely and perfect little places where all the things we love best in the world could be bound--perhaps even literally--in a nutshell. --BookPage Miniature Gardening is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things. Publishers Weekly It will draw beginning and experienced practitioners to this whimsical hobby as art. Booklist Adorable. . . . A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Country Living After reading this book, I came away even more inspired to create my own miniature garden. Beautiful examples of tiny gardens along with easy-to-follow directions. . . . are all included in this helpful book. Birds & Blooms A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Philadelphia Inquirer The author lays out how we might invent Lilliputian versions of our own lives so that we might imagine inhabiting this or that little Eden of our own devising, lovely and perfect little places where all the things we love best in the world could be bound perhaps even literally in a nutshell. BookPage Miniature Gardening is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things. Publishers Weekly It will draw beginning and experienced practitioners to this whimsical hobby as art. Booklist Adorable. . . . A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Country Living After reading this book, I came away even more inspired to create my own miniature garden. Beautiful examples of tiny gardens along with easy-to-follow directions. . . . are all included in this helpful book. Birds & Blooms A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Philadelphia Inquirer The author lays out how we might invent Lilliputian versions of our own lives so that we might imagine inhabiting this or that little Eden of our own devising, lovely and perfect little places where all the things we love best in the world could be bound perhaps even literally in a nutshell. BookPage Miniature gardening is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things. Publishers Weekly It will draw beginning and experienced practitioners to this whimsical hobby as art. Booklist Adorable A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Country Living After reading this book, I came away even more inspired to create my own miniature garden. Beautiful examples of tiny gardens along with easy-to-follow directions ... are all included in this helpful book. Birds & Blooms A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. Philadelphia Inquirer The author lays out how we might invent Lilliputian versions of our own lives so that we might imagine inhabiting this or that little Eden of our own devising, lovely and perfect little places where all the things we love best in the world could be bound perhaps even literally in a nutshell. BookPage Container/miniature gardening is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things.


<i>Miniature Gardening</i> is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things. --<i><b>Publishers Weekly </b></i> It will draw beginning and experienced practitioners to this whimsical hobby as art. --<i><b>Booklist</b></i> Adorable. . . . A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. --<i><b>Country Living</b></i> After reading this book, I came away even more inspired to create my own miniature garden. Beautiful examples of tiny gardens along with easy-to-follow directions. . . . are all included in this helpful book. --<i><b>Birds & Blooms</b></i> A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it, too. --<i><b>Philadelphia Inquirer</b></i> The author lays out how we might invent Lilliputian versions of our own lives so that we might imagine inhabiting this or that little Eden of our own devising, lovely and perfect little places where all the things we love best in the world could be bound--perhaps even literally--in a nutshell. --<i><b>BookPage</b></i> </p>


Container/miniature gardening is a magical option for the gardener with limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things.


Author Information

Janit Calvo is an artist, miniaturist, gardener, author, photographer, and entrepreneur. She gardens with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and is surrounded by her award-winning miniature worlds of all shapes and sizes in among her full-size gardens. Pioneer of the miniature garden hobby and the founder of Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center and the Miniature Garden Society, Calvo graduated with honors from the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has won awards at the Seattle Miniature Show and the Soriculture Garden Art Show. Find out more at miniaturegarden.com.

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