Birds are customary companions to flowers in nearly every country. In the 19th century, designers incorporated elegant birds in fancy wallpapers, on colorful lampshades, in jewelry and atop the ...

There’s something unusually satisfying about teensy versions of full-size objects. The details are that much more intricate, the objects that much cuter, and the possibilities that much more creative.

Kathleen Ferguson grabbed a pair of pruning shears from a mailbox nailed to a garden bed and leaned down to cut bunches of Orlaya grandiflora on the flower-filled hillside. “This property has a pulse, ...