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. I do like to create my mini gardens in containers because I like to be able to move them onto the deck or the front porch, and out of the way if it hails.
There are ever so many plants for miniature gardens, but I tend to have my favorites I come back to over and over again. We chose some of these for our gnome garden – in this planter we used Corkscrew Rush, Miniature Daisy, Wooly Thyme, Irish Moss, and Melampodium.
Home depot, a dollar store, Walmart, Micheals – almost all the big name “box stores” sell fairy or gnome garden kits and gnome garden supplies. We generally like to make our fairy garden accessories (which are also cute diy gnome garden ideas), but this time we bought a gnome gardening kit from a local craft store.
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.