Miniature Gardens vs. Fairy Gardens – What is the Difference?

I opened up a little can of worms the other day on our Facebook page.

Thankfully, I’m a little hardcore when it comes to gardening, I like worms.

A couple of weeks ago, I created a post for the Facebook page that linked to a series of fairy gardens on HGTV.com and suggested that they should start hanging out with us “real miniature gardeners.” I must admit, that was a bit hasty in retrospect, but I didn’t mean to offend anyone so here’s an explanation of where that comment came from.

The first picture in the album was of a couple of windows and a door nailed to a tree with a fairy in front of it. Inside the album, however, there were a couple of pictures that were very pretty little miniature fairy gardens, and pictures of a…