Alpine plants are the jewels of the plant world. Beautiful but small, these plants grow best in a habitat that most resembles their native one. Most are at home nestled between rocky crags. No rocky ...

This we had, and now the scapes are growing again and will bloom in around four to six weeks. Here too is puya, a hardy bromeliad from South America; this is about to open its flowers but is a bit of ...

If you can make space for a miniature rock garden — one of tiny plants growing within the confines of a faux-stone trough — the promise of an outsize payoff awaits. Inside the walls of a trough, you ...

Miniature worlds — snow globes or Lego villages — wield a special kind of magic. They lure you into a mesmerizing universe where everything feels right and where you, the all-powerful creator, get to ...

THERE’S NO BETTER time to create your own tiny, perfect world than when the real world feels like it’s out of control. Unsurprisingly, alpine troughs are having a moment. Designed to look like ...