You can create a gnome garden directly on the ground (around the base of a tree, or in a garden bed), or you can create it as a container garden, which is what we did.
We chose some of these for our gnome garden – in this planter we used Corkscrew Rush, Miniature Daisy, Wooly Thyme, Irish Moss, and Melampodium.
Planning your layout is really helpful if you don’t want to end up digging plants up and replanting them! I like to sort of set the plants into the planter before I start PLANTING them in planter, just to get an idea of the layout.
Technically, for this garden we added gnomes and accessories as we planted, because we wanted to make sure everything was fitting into the space nicely.