Fairy Gardens - Photos too please!

[nittygrittydirtdigger]

(Awestruck by HotPepper's fairy gardens!)

I've been collecting stuff from the 2nd hand stores and the grounds to start a fairy garden. Guess it's about time, now that I have all these inspirational photos to look at. I'm planning on using a lot of sweet alyssum as surroundings for the yard. I have a couple of dward junipers that should make great "towering forest" for the background. I'm planning on using bottle caps as molds for stepping stones, so I'm trying to keep everything in perspective for that size.

Looking forward to seeing more fairy garden photos.

 

[Jared77]

HPQ that's amazing!

 

[Carol Dee]

V- look what I found! the prices look good and so many tiny treasures. how about a tea set?
http://www.miniature-gardens.com/miniatures/dishes.html

 

[canesisters]

My Mom made a doll house years ago and made almost all of the decorations from bits and pieces. Toothpick ends in beads for taper candles on the table. Screw-on ear rings as wall sconces with toothpick candles in them. A thimble as a mop bucket. Scraps of lace cut in the shape of long ladies gloves laid across the end of the bed. Mini bird house for a wood box next to the wood stove. She would take apart kitchen magnets, and barbie accessories - anything that was tiny was instantly the focus of her attention. Just had to keep an eye out - the strangest things could become something different with a coat of paint and set in the right setting.


eta: HPQ your fairy gardens are wonderful!! Sooo cute.

 

[journey11]

My daughter and I have been making fairy houses out of dried gourds and bits and pieces of natural objects we've collected in the yard and out and about. We've made four over the past year or so, but I left them out in the flowerbed all winter so they are not in very good shape now. It was all for the fun of making them really.

BTW, overgrown patty pan squash that have been left in the compost pile all winter make very cute fairy houses! They dry out and become hollow like a gourd, which I didn't expect. My DD calls them "flatty patty" squash.

I've been wanting to make some more fairy houses, something more durable and use a variety of live succulents, moss and such for their little gardens. We glued things onto our gourd houses using tacky glue, so they don't last well outside. What kind of glue might you use for something you want to keep outside? Maybe mortar would work better?

Anyhow, here are a couple ideas I collected off of Pinterest . I guess fairy houses are a very popular thing on Pinterest right now. My favorite of these is the idea to reuse broken planters and make them look like a fairy took up residence there.

You could use the moss painting technique I referenced in this thread to decorate an old stump or a piece of driftwood like the second pin shows. That would be a wonderful way to turn those immovable stumps in your yard into a work of art, rather than an eyesore! I could have had a whole fairy colony in the old maple stump that we finally got removed from our front yard.

ETA: Very cute fairy house, HPQ!

And I love those adorable fairy dishes! Don't show my MIL--she'll buy all they have!

 

[canesisters]

HEY! Look what I found!

http://www.abcdistributing.com/Gard...-Kits/prod701255.jmp?navAction=jump&fm=search

So Cute!

 

[MontyJ]

OK, I need help. I have planted fairies three times now. Half of them come up feet first and die immediately. The other half die because their wings get stuck in the dirt and wrap around their little heads. What is the proper seed orientation when planting fairies??? My gnomes all came up fine. But when they saw the fairies sprouting, they became disgruntled and left. I think I heard one of them mention Atlantic City :/

 

[journey11]

Those are neat, Cane! I like all the moss on the second one. I saw those sets in Lakeside Dist. too. $20, I think.

 

[canesisters]

Monty, are you spraying for huffalumps before planting? Ya gotta make sure there are no huffalumps in the soil. They will spoil your fairy sprout.

 

[so lucky]

OK, I need help. I have planted fairies three times now. Half of them come up feet first and die immediately. The other half die because their wings get stuck in the dirt and wrap around their little heads. What is the proper seed orientation when planting fairies??? My gnomes all came up fine. But when they saw the fairies sprouting, they became disgruntled and left. I think I heard one of them mention Atlantic City :/

Good one!