1:12 scale seedlings and plants



The fern and caladium are laser cut kits. The fern kit is by Jeanetta Kendall, which I bought from Georgie Steed of theminiaturegarden.blogspot. You have to paint it, and I messed it up by spraying it with acrylic varnish, not recommended, those leaves had to be carefully sanded! At the moment it is planted in a 1:12 scale chimney pot. The Caladium is by Bonnie Lavish, which I bought from Fine Flowers in miniature.  There would probably be enough to make two plants, but I crammed mine all into one pot.  I decided to splash out on a set of stylus tools, which are brilliant for shaping the paper, and will definitely be part of my well used tools. Being a bit stingy before, I had been using the end of a crochet hook, which doesn't work quite as well.

I should probably mention, the conservatory idea was born, when I realised I had nowhere to put this tiny trowel.  And I wanted lots and lots of paper plants. Not looking forward to the day when all this stuff will need to be dusted.

Birds eye view of the seedling tray. I bought the seedling tray from My Tiny World, and bent the edges round to give it a battered look. The trowel is by Danny Shotton.



The seedlings were made using thread and painted paper, the sweetpea seedling was the experiment, I just made it  up and called it sweetpea.  I used pva glue to stiffen the thread, before attaching the leaves using pva glue and tweezers. I used nail scissors to cut out the leaves. The chives are railway modellers "grass". The plant labels are made with wood veneer, that was sanded down.  That is the smallest writing I could manage that day. The soil is 1:12 scale soil...I don't know what it is, but I mixed it with a bit of pva glue before I put it in the pots, using a 1:12 scale spoon to spoon the mixture in and tamp the "soil".  Only realised after glueing the labels in, that I have managed to put all three, right were the join of the pot is..........and the courgette looks a bit sickly, so that will have to get another coat of paint.  The card pots are made using the smallest of the pot template that I posted in the previous post.