Where: Betty Ford Alpine Gardens Education Center, Vail. When: Monday, June 5, 11 a.m. Cost: $5 suggested donation. More information: Visit http://www ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typically, trough gardens receive alpine or rock garden perennials, bulbs and dwarf conifers and shrubs. These are all hardy and content in troughs meant to stay outside. The tender plants — including ...