I'm sticking with little pots for now

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Some pic's of my mini fish tank garden.
John.

That is fantastic

Looks great!
Pssst, can you add the last square bracket to the lightbox? Surely we are missing another really nice pic.

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Some pic's of my mini fish tank garden.
John.

I have a couple of those but mine need water changes

That's fantastic, Meandmy! Your proportions are wonderful, so close to realistic!

Meanmyroses - Very lush garden in your fish aquarium! My hat is off to you for such a beautiful tank! I bet the fish love it! ❤️

BTW - Off topic, but ..... I noted your username. Since I love roses, I went to your profile and took a look at all your Plant Combination photos! Wow! If that is your yard, you have done just as stunning of a job of landscaping your yard as you have your aquarium! Beautiful!

This tiny garden lives in the lid of an old grill. The plants are perfectly happy but the soil has eroded down to less than an inch at the deepest part. Time to remove the plants, add more dirt, replace the plants.


The prickly pear pads are perilous, even at petite size. I don't know why I keep that stuff around. I hate getting poked by it. The way it turns kind of purple over winter is what gets me I think.

Haha, Tiffany, still more opuntia?
It's been very cold so I haven't been gardening outside much (Mostly just looking... inspecting...), so I haven't poked myself yet. It has fared well so far through the winter.

That's great! I am still finding Opuntia bits here'n'there. This weekend I was moving pots around and as far as I know, only touched Opuntias once, like Little Jack Horner. I stuck in my thumb (to pick up the pot) and pulled out not a plum, but a little piece of Opuntia stuck in my thumb. But the next morning when I was taking a shower, I felt some glochids stuck in my skin in some places I can't even discuss. What tha...??! And found another one in my leg this morning.

Ouch!!

there is a reason I don't keep spined cactus. I am too clumsy. but I love my Dancing bones

Way too big for a mini garden though

Yikes 😱 that's one of the reasons why I never had cacti for a long time. I didn't like the pointy spines. Well this time seeing all the cacti blooms, I started collecting them as mini-gardens. I gifted 2 of my cacti mini gardens already and they were well received.

Not all cacti are as aggressive as Opuntia. I have a little red cactus that is harmless and hasn't jumped on or poked anyone for years. Also, it has stayed tiny, not trying to take over the world.

These are the moments when Opuntia says, "Wait, I can be cute! Never ever, ever, ever, ever, ever gonna make a flower for you, but don't you like this?"



Rocks are pulled out, most of the plants trimmed off - that I could find places for, decor gathered in the "town square."

Yes mine never blooms too but I call them my little sausage cacti.

How cute!

The last bit of sun at the most sunny end. This took a while, had to wait until I could get to L's to get some decent soil. I ended up just topping it off since the soil that was still there seemed fine.

Engaged in inner debate about buying more aquarium gravel, or using what is left after spreading and pulling up what I could twice - in a smaller area than the entire surface. That's not bad, the original bag served for 11 yrs. Decor is still mostly in a pile elsewhere. I can't bend over this thing for long at a time. Need a new string of micro solar lights for the church, the old one bit the dust. The Shrinky Dink "stained glass" window has gotten really cloudy too. Wonder if some of that headlight stuff would work on it? LOL!

headlight stuff? I cleaned the plastic dash windows in my 75 chevy pickup with non ammonia window cleaner followed by Rain-x. Might work on church windows. That is a really elaborate mini-garden. accidentally started at beginning of thread and the windowscreen underneath was pretty neat too

What a beautiful mini garden, Tiffany.