Janit Calvo is an artist, miniaturist, gardener, author, photographer, and entrepreneur. She gardens with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and is surrounded by her award-winning miniature worlds of all shapes and sizes in among her full-size gardens. Pioneer of the miniature garden hobby and the founder of Two Green Thumbs Miniature Garden Center and the Miniature Garden Society, Calvo graduated with honors from the Ontario College of Art and Design. She has won awards at the Seattle Miniature Show and the Soriculture Garden Art Show. Find out more at miniaturegarden.com.
"Miniature Gardening is a magical option for the gardener with
limited yard space. This book will position well anyone who wants
to begin creating a little world filled with happy growing things."
--Publishers Weekly "It will draw beginning and experienced
practitioners to this whimsical hobby as art." --Booklist
"Adorable. . . . A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just
imagine a carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and
experience it, too." --Country Living "After reading this book, I
came away even more inspired to create my own miniature garden.
Beautiful examples of tiny gardens along with easy-to-follow
directions. . . . are all included in this helpful book." --Birds
Blooms "A pleasant escape that allows [one] to not just imagine a
carefree and fanciful world, but also to build and experience it,
too." --Philadelphia Inquirer "The author lays out how we might
invent Lilliputian versions of our own lives so that we might
imagine inhabiting this or that little Eden of our own devising,
lovely and perfect little places where all the things we love best
in the world could be bound--perhaps even literally--in a
nutshell." --BookPage
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