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Miniature Garden in a Pretty Vintage Tin

Posted on Jul 18, 2018

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Miniature Garden in a Pretty Vintage Tin
Excerpted with permission from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1782494596/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1782494596&linkCode=as2&tag=craftfocom-20&linkId=2daa9e104f9c40667ecdf843249d939a">Teeny Tiny Gardening</a>, published by CICO books. I like the idea of a garden that you can move round with you as you go about your day. This lovely old cookie tin has been put to good use and is now home to some pretty, small-scale plants that create a sweet little garden with a real feel of a wildflower meadow in summer. Materials Old tin Fine gravel Potting mix Plants: Campanula pulla ‘Alba’(bellflower) Erigeron karvinskianus(fleabane) Penstemon pinifolius‘Mersea Yellow’ Rhodanthemum catananche‘Tizi-n-Tichka’ Rhodohypoxis ‘Midori’ Thymus serpyllum ‘Vey’

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Make holes in the bottom of the tin.

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Cover the bottom with a layer of gravel to improve drainage. Put some potting mix on top of the layer of gravel.

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Take the plants out of their plastic pots and gently remove some of the potting mix from around the roots. Arrange the plants in the tin, putting the taller plants toward the back. Press more potting mix around the plants and push the mix down firmly. Keep the tin well watered and remember to place it on a tray to catch the drips while you water.

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Excerpted with permission from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1782494596/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1782494596&linkCode=as2&tag=craftfocom-20&linkId=2daa9e104f9c40667ecdf843249d939a">Teeny Tiny Gardening</a>, published by CICO books.

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