WEST FARGO - Julia Hell’s new hobby gives her an outlet to express creativity. But it’s not so easy to explain to the uninitiated. “I describe it to my friends as kind of like playing Barbies again,” ...

'Tis the season to celebrate the evergreens in our lives as we prepare to give pride of place to the Christmas trees that represent everything bright and shiny about the holidays. Many ...

Sandy Campbell gardens as little as possible — literally. The Chino Hills green thumb has been creating miniature gardens for years and helped start the Petals ’n Wings shop in downtown Claremont, ...

Charles Young spent a year creating Paperholm, a whimsical and meticulously built miniature landscape that includes paper models of buildings, cars, carousels, tree houses, and more. Young, who is ...

Many plant lovers have limited outdoor space in which to let their green fingers run riot and, judging from the readers’ letters on the subject, creating miniature landscapes in pots is an ...

Professional gardener Angela Carcich can whip together a dish garden in five minutes. You can, too. The supplies to create a dish garden -- a miniature landscape in a container -- are relatively ...

Years of dust cover the vista of train tracks, railroad stations, village stores and tiny figures peopling the miniature landscape. Multiple control boards, which at one time could order five trains ...