Garden: First Attempts

Garden: First Attempts

I am an avid gardener and so, apparently are the occupants of my minihouse. I have designed the garden so that it is constructed in two wooden trays that can be swapped out for the different seasons.

I have gone completely overboard collecting plant material; everything from model train landscaping materials, artificial plants from Michael's, tiny polymer flowers made in Asia and paper punches to make my own. Talk about a learning curve! Each time I complete something that I;m satisfied with, I look online at other folks fabulous creations and start over.

Last winter's garden was a temporary, thrown together affair which I'll redo this winter.

Last Spring was somewhat better:

By Summer things had improved considerably:

Fall is messy! I used a combination of dried mosses, purchased shrubs and plants and bits of artificial plants.

While binge watching TV I punched out thousands of Fall leaves, mostly from brown paper bags. For the oak tree, I bought a pair of bare tree armatures and cut one's branches off and added them to the other. Then I thinly spread glue over the branches a few at a time and rolled them in a pile of leaves. 

I was so busy this winter that I never got around to setting up the winter garden and now it is nearly Spring again. I'll be setting that one up soon.