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Article: GARDENING GETS SMALL; MINIATURE PLANTS CAN BRING TRADITION OR WHIMSY TO ANY SIZE PLOT.(HOME & GARDEN)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 21, 2001
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Byline: Connie Nelson; Staff Writer
In Kathy Swenson's pastoral garden, a stream trickles down a waterfall and swells into a moss-lined pond, an old-fashioned tire swing hangs lazily from the branch of a shade tree and a flagstone walkway winds through lush plantings.
But Swenson can't dangle her feet in the pond or swing on the tire swing. And she has to be very careful when she walks the winding path. That's because the pond is the size of a dinner plate, the shade tree is knee-high and the walkway is roughly the width of Swenson's foot.
In a raised bed measuring no more than 10 feet by 10 feet, Swenson has created a Lilliputian landscape ...