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Miniature plants and other related projects for dollhouses, roomboxes and dioramas

Links to miniature projects







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photo albums, blog posts, webpages

Blogs

Blogs concentrating on plants or categories/labels about them in blogs

Groups

Discussion groups, forums (or forum categories) and photo groups dedicated to plants.

Supplies for sale

Supplies needed for making plant projects.

Miniatures for sale

Do you have a section for plants in your shop? Add a direct link to that item here.

Books

Books about miniature plant projects (also books with chapters about them)

Making Miniatures: Plants and Flowers in 1-inch Scale - Vol 1 by Mary Huffer, M J Miniatures

Instructions for miniatures

Miniature printables

Wallpapers

Wallpapers that go well with plant projects

Other Printies

Book/magazine covers related to plants

Videos

YouTube videos about miniature projects related to this subject

Research/ Inspiration

Tips/Hints

add realism to your rooms with the natural fragrance of Eucalyptus. Punch mini leaves from "real" preserved Eucalyptus leaves with an inexpensive 1/8" circle punch. Use cloth-covered wire in brown or forest green (or paint it) to match the leaves. Glue the mini leaves alternately down the wire to look like a stem of Eucalyptus. Use a photo or a real stem as "model" to correctly place the leaves. Use heavy tacky glue and tweezers to place the leaves. Make a number of branches and place in a vase or bundle into a wall swag or wreath. If you have an enclosed roombox, the room will be scented with the smell of eucalyptus....it is great!
Cattails: Put a "blob" of glue on the end of a piece of wire. Now, dip this into powdered instant coffee.
Cattails: Use preserved rye grass- usually found with dried flowers & materials. Gently tear the rye grass into thin pieces in a variety of widths. Break off into 4" lengths. Find the sturdiest of the rye grass pieces for the cattails. Take a small amount of Fimo and flatten out to be about a 1" square.
Wrap the Fimo around the chosen rye grass pieces about 1/8" from the top. Roll the wrapped piece to make into a cylinder form. Should it get too long, pinch off the excess and carefully tap ends to create the right look. Bake the cattails as you normally would bake Fimo (in a full size oven only) but WATCH CAREFULLY as you have grass that IS FLAMMABLE but shouldn't be a problem for 10 minutes at 200 degrees. (or just use air-dry clay!) Whether you put them in a basket or use in a landscape, place some of the loose pieces of grass around the cattails so that they drape in a natural manner.

Ideas about what is needed for these projects