It seemed simple at the time.....

But things rarely turn out that way...

First things first though

A big 'Welcome' to both Helen and Hilsu!  I am so happy that you have found my blog and have chosen to join my journey in the wonderful world of miniatures.  What a wonderful world it is too Hilsu, that we can share our delight in this hobby when you are in Finland and I am here in Australia!  You have a very pretty blog.  Helen, I couldn't find a blog for you, do you have one?  I sincerely hope that you both enjoy visiting here and return often.  Please feel free to leave feedback - I really love comments, it makes me feel in touch with all my friends around the world.

And now that garden

I blithely thought 'I'll just fill the pavement area in front with flowers - no problem'...After all, it's a small area.  But the catch is of course, that quarter scale flowers are even smaller - tiny, in fact, lol!  So it of course takes a lot of them to fill even a small space!

I'm sorry I've been so quiet for so long, but it's because I've been making flowers at night and during some days too.  Flowers, flowers, and more flowers.  And still there are white spots in that garden, though I'm getting there now.

The clematis is half done.  Whew!  Boy am I tired of those tiny leaves!  But I really want to have it on the front of the cottages. It will be worth all the effort (I hope).  

So looking at the result of all the hours (and hours and hours) of work.  First I did a hydrangea, which is really sweet.  But it didn't give me the splash of real colour that I wanted on the right side of the garden.

So I put it aside and will use it elsewhere, either in this garden or another, and made a red camellia which I also love.  And it gives just the lovely colour that I wanted.

In fact I love it so much that here's a second photo 'just because'.  It shows it with the branches arranged more closely together.

I've already showed you the first part of the garden planted out, here it is with the camellia added as well.  

Then I did a whole stack of tulips in red, white and yellow and planted them beside the path. The colours of the tulips were dictated by what  was available from Susan of sdk miniatures.  I didn't want to have a particular colour scheme for this garden, just a whole range of plants in different colours.  But I can't help myself!  I do actually have to have colours together that I am comfortable having there.

Here's an overview of the garden as of today.  There are still white spaces, despite endless hours of flower-making, or so it seems.  But I am so pleased with the result so far.

Now I'll show you the different parts bit by bit.


The only addition to the left side is some gerberas in front of the sunflowers.  There are daffodils in front of the gardenia (can't remember whether I showed those before) and as you can see there is a couple of areas to fill in on both sides of the path).

The right side has gained some lovely blue delphiniums, some gerberas in cream and purple, and a blue feature pot with blue flowers trailing down the sides.  Don't ask me what sort they are - I made them from left-over petals and leaves I 'borrowed' from another kit.  It turned out that I had so many flowers trailing down the sides that you can hardly see the pot vbg. Tucked in between the poppies and the blue pot are some white petunias, some of them draping over the front of the garden.

And here is the middle section.  I took this photo before I 'planted' the chrysanthemum in front of the purple delphiniums.  The white gardenia is on the left, and blue and purple delphiniums provide both height and splashes of vivid colour against the wall.  The tulips are a lovely bright border along the path, some black-eyed Susans are between the tulips and blue delphiniums on the rights. In front of the purple delphiniums there is a dark red chrysanthemum plant, and there are lots of gerbera plants in orange and dark pink.  A mass planting of purple and white petunias fills in the area between the daffodils and primroses and these plants, but there is still a bit more area to fill - I think more pink would be a good addition.

This close-up photo of the middle section was taken after the chrysanthemum was planted.  I like the way it shows the orange gerberas so well, and the yellow daffodils show up nicely against the white and purple petunias, while the pink flowers peep through in the middle too.

Yes, all in all this will be a nice garden I think.  Tonight I will finish off the front edge and sides with paperclay, and mark 'stones' into it.  I don't think I'll be doing any more flowers at this moment. 


Suggestions please for filling the gap between the blue delphiniums and the red camellia on the right.  And also for the space between the gardenia and daffodils and the pathway.