Fairy Garden Scale

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Fairy garden scale.

Most real life doors are 7 5 feet high so the scale of a 3 75 doorway would be 1 24 or some may call it half sized. 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. It s the realism that creates the magic not the fairies. For fragrance and texture try herbs like creeping thyme watercress and orange peppermint spearmint or chocolate mints.

How do you use this scale when planning a fairy garden. Welcome back to our miniature gardening beginner series. 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. Find the right fairy garden houses to furnish the outside of your dollhouse garden in both 1 12 scale and 1 24 scale miniatures.

In addition to miniature patio furniture a tiny trellis complements the fairy garden. Just in case you are just joining us here are the previous lessons to get you caught up. The size of 1 24 is smaller than 1 12 so this scale works well for container mini gardens. 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.

Like model railroads fairy gardens come in many scales. 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.