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A miniature garden

1/26/2015

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For a garden club show, an artist friend and I created a display that was different from everyone else's.  We created a springtime scene.  She painted a mountain waterfall and lake for a backdrop and I created a running brook in the foreground and put one of my small sculptures beside the brook.  We then decorated the scene with moss and colorful little succulents from her garden and finished the scene off with pink leptospermum (myrtle family) twigs from my garden for a flowering tree. We created the whole scene on plywood mounted on top of a large metal baking pan several inches deep which we filled with water to allow a small pump (under the rock dam) to recirculate our brook.  We won "Most Creative".

The idea for this project came from memories I have of going into the woods with my children when they were young and gathering moss and little plants to make terrariums in small plastic fish tanks.  We would then bury a bowl of water in the middle for a pond.  It's a fun project for children and they can add "elves" and "fairy" dolls to make the scene complete.  It is a creative way to teach them to appreciate the tiny growing world that we sometimes fail to notice.

submitted by Laurenn (Mimi)

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