Creating a miniature landscape

Wayne Decker is receive us into his railroad garden in Chubbuck , Idaho . We ’ve visited before ( Wayne ’s Garden Railroad ) , and now he’e sharing how thing are looking as spring turn into summertime .

Here are my latest pictures for this year on my garden railroad . thing are starting to come back strong . My Irish moss lines the track , and my honeysuckle is a favorite with thehummingbirds . The goldfish enjoy thepondwith the short stream that feeds it . affair should be in full salad days by the end of the calendar month .

Wayne has make a whole intricate landscape around the railway .

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The small yellow - leaved sedum Angelina ( Sedumrupestre‘Angelina ’ , Zones 5–8 ) looks almost like a marvelous shrub compare to the size of the railway line .

This gear - grade panorama of the landscape painting shows howsmall shrub , perennial , and rock ‘n’ roll take on the form of hills and tree .

The train go past tower larkspurs ( Consolidaajacis , annual ) scud up as they set to flower .

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Violas ( Viola×wittrockiana , annual ) bloom by the power train post .

Would n’t it be big if violas really towered over our gondola ?

Blooming sweet woodruff ( Galium odoratum , Zones 4–8 ) ring a small planetary house beside the railroad .

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Full - size lights engulfed in honeysuckle ( Lonicerasp . ) are about to burst into prime .

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tiny plants around an outside toy train track

close up of this mini landscape

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purple and yellow flowers net to the train

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railroad lights covered in plants

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