Fairy Garden Scale

Keep your plantings in scale with your fairy garden by growing foliage plants like peperomia small leaved ivies weeping fig dwarf mondo grass clubmoss dwarf ferns succulents and dwarf grasses.

Fairy garden scale.

It s the realism that creates the magic not the fairies. Like model railroads fairy gardens come in many scales. How do you use this scale when planning a fairy garden. Most real life doors are 7 5 feet high so the scale of a 3 75 doorway would be 1 24 or some may call it half sized.

1 24 inch scale 1 24 scale also referred to as half scale half inch scale or 1 2 scale means 1 2 inch 1 foot. In addition to miniature patio furniture a tiny trellis complements the fairy garden. The most common is 1 12 or 1 scale which means one inch in your miniatures is the equivalent of one foot in the real world. In lieu of a flowering vine you can substitute a small creeping flowering plant which you can train over the trellis as if it were a vine try wooly thyme which sports pink blooms in the spring or mazus reptans which comes in purple and white flowering varieties.

Welcome back to our miniature gardening beginner series. For fragrance and texture try herbs like creeping thyme watercress and orange peppermint spearmint or chocolate mints. Other common scales include 1 24 or 1 2 scale 1 2 inch is the equivalent of a foot and 1 48 or 1 4 scale which means 1 4 inch is the equivalent of a foot. The size of 1 24 is smaller than 1 12 so this scale works well for container mini gardens.

Miniature garden accessories are different from fairy garden accessories in scale quality and workmanship. Just in case you are just joining us here are the previous lessons to get you caught up.