All about miniature plants and gardens indoors and out - Bernice Brilmayer

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 63-18225

Printed in the United States of America

First Edition

	AUTHOR’S NOTE	[9]
	ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	[13]
Chapter 1	MINIATURE WINDOW GARDENS	[17]
Chapter 2	MINIATURE GARDENS WITH ARTIFICIAL LIGHT	[23]
Chapter 3	MINIATURE GARDENS IN CONTAINERS	[38]
Chapter 4	MINIATURE GARDENS IN GLASS	[53]
Chapter 5	MINIATURE GREENHOUSE GARDENS	[61]
Chapter 6	MINIATURE HOUSE AND GREENHOUSE PLANTS	[74]
Chapter 7	MINIATURE ROSES, INDOORS AND OUT	[137]
Chapter 8	MINIATURE SINK GARDENS	[150]
Chapter 9	MINIATURE PLANTS, BONSAI-STYLE	[159]
Chapter 10	MINIATURE GARDENS IN THE LANDSCAPE	[177]
Chapter 11	MINIATURE ROCK AND WALL GARDENS	[183]
Chapter 12	MINIATURE POOLS AND WATER PLANTS	[199]
Chapter 13	MINIATURE WOODLAND GARDENS AND PLANTS	[211]
Chapter 14	MINIATURE TREES AND SHRUBS	[226]
Chapter 15	MINIATURE PERENNIALS AND ROCK PLANTS	[251]
Chapter 16	MINIATURE ANNUALS	[277]
Chapter 17	MINIATURE GARDEN BULBS	[288]
	EPILOGUE	[299]
	BIBLIOGRAPHY	[300]
	WHERE TO BUY MINIATURE PLANTS AND SUPPLIES	[301]
	INDEX	[307]

List of Illustrations

	BETWEEN PAGES
COLOR By the author except as noted
Formal garden in a wash-boiler lid	[32–33]
Tiny tropical garden with pool	[64–65]
Achimenes, a beautiful gesneriad	[96–97]
Twenty-three varieties of miniature and dwarf geraniums	[128–129]
Streptocarpus, Weismoor hybrid	[160–161]
Rose and miniature rose	[192–193]
Garden in the landscape	[224–225]
Rock garden effectively composed	[256–257]
BLACK AND WHITE By the author except as noted
Miniature geraniums in uniform rows	[20]
Mexican motif with cacti in window box	[21]
Child’s cactus garden over radiator	[21]
Small plants in a lighted bookcase	[25]
An indoor “jungle garden”	[26]
Light-case planted with various small plants	[28]
Light shelves with begonias	[29]
Kenilworth ivy in gnome strawberry jar	[40]
Pawnbroker’s planter with ivy	[41]
Pruning a dish garden	[43]
Apple-tree root with pocket for plants	[45]
Miniature plants in fish bowls (Industrial Photographic Specialists)	[54]
Converting a cider jug into a terrarium	[56–57]
Commercially produced terrarium (Russ Stone)	[65]
Author’s succulent garden	[68]
Rampant greenhouse	[69]
Unusual propagation box	[87]
Sprouted stem cuttings of dwarf geraniums	[88]
‘Spaulding,’ bushy dwarf begonia	[98]
Group of dwarf begonias	[99]
Caladium humboldti	[108]
Miniature climber, Cissus striata	[112]
Ivy meagheri	[119]
Helxine soleiroli	[121]
Leuconeura massangeana	[123]
Oxalis hedysaroides rubra (Merry Gardens)	[125]
Three dwarf geraniums (Merry Gardens)	[127]
Dwarf geranium, ‘Robin Hood’ (Merry Gardens)	[127]
Creeping Pilea depressa	[130]
Hardy Saxifraga sarmentosa	[133]
Sinningia pusilla, miniature of miniatures	[135]
A miniature rose grows	[146–147]
Miniature garden of dwarf evergreens	[152]
Rock garden in a wash-boiler lid	[157]
Variety of bonsai trees	[162]
Bonsai in citrus	[163]
White poppies in a tiny garden	[178]
Raised flower bed	[186]
Saxifraga seedlings	[188]
Trimmed lemon thyme and ivy	[194]
Constructing a no-cost pool	[204–205]
Wild garden in New York City	[213]
Bloodroot	[214]
Juniper with pansies	[245]
Planted cold frame	[257]
Author in her $00.00 greenhouse	[279]
DRAWINGS
Dream greenhouse (Kathleen Bourke)	[66]
A fancy to build on (Kathleen Bourke)	[67]
Foliage details of five popular miniature trees and shrubs (Fritz Schaefer)	[237]
Construction diagram for low-cost greenhouse (Hal Gearhardt)	[280]

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations