Fairy Garden Scale

Find the right fairy garden houses to furnish the outside of your dollhouse garden in both 1 12 scale and 1 24 scale miniatures.

Fairy garden scale.

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. For fragrance and texture try herbs like creeping thyme watercress and orange peppermint spearmint or chocolate mints. Measure the doorway of the fairy houses to determine the scale.

Welcome back to our miniature gardening beginner series. Miniature garden accessories are different from fairy garden accessories in scale quality and workmanship. It s the realism that creates the magic not the fairies. 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. 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. How do you use this scale when planning a fairy garden. The size of 1 24 is smaller than 1 12 so this scale works well for container mini gardens.

Your online source for handcrafted quality 1 24 scale and 1 12 scale dollhouse miniatures. 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.