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Posted by lavender_lass WA zone 3/4 (My Page) on Thu, Aug 13, 09 at 12:26
| Hi! I'm new to the forum this week and I was in Cottage Gardens asking about a fairy garden I want to create for my two four-year old nieces. They love Tinkerbell and dressing up like fairies and are just becoming interested in the garden. While they had some very good ideas about plants and accessories, they suggested I ask this forum for any additional ideas. I do have an arbor and a bird bath and a small seating area.
The garden is on the east side of the house, divided by a grass path down the middle. On the shady side, I have some peonies, pansies, columbine and forget-me-knots. On the sunny side I have some butterfly bushes, coneflower and a miniature rose by the bird bath. I was also hoping to put in two small dwarf apple trees to go with the miniature blueberry bushes and strawberries. It's not really a big garden, but except for the grass path and a dividing path between the proposed apple trees, I hope to stuff in as many fun plants as I can. Thank you for any help you can provide. |
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RE: Fairy Garden
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Wow! What a wonderful start! I think most children like showy bleeding hearts. Some people on this site make very nice fairy houses, seems like bird houses would also be appropriate. Maybe your nieces could help you to decorate some for their fairy garden.
post pics!
kathy |
RE: Fairy Garden
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| Welcome Lavendar! Glad to have you with us! If you go to the bottom of the page to the search bar and type in Fairy Gardens, you'll find lots of posts on making them and see all sorts of pictures from other GJers who have them in their own gardens. Some of them are just amazing! Let us see your projects too...we love pictures!! |
RE: Fairy Garden
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| Also if you just do a general internet search...you will come up with lists of huge gardens full of smaller fairy gardens that have special open 'house' each year...kids dress up like fairies and have tea parties in some. I have a few boxes of stuff ready to put out and each time I start to..something happens and we shift the garden areas around...to accomodate dogs....to put in an above ground pool. That kind of things. I am ready to put mine in drawers that are in an ole dresser I have on patio....lol. See you can put them in drawers also...then they can be moved when the girls are not at your place. Just set the drawers out thru hidden areas in the garden and let them discover them. |
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Welcome, lavender! You need to plant some "hollyhocks"...they're really biennial, I think...don't bloom first yr., but 2nd & they re-seed & come up for me each yr. That way the girls can make "hollyhock dolls"...short & sweet fun project!
Jeanne S. |
Here is a link that might be useful: How to make Hollyhock dolls
RE: Fairy Garden
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| I'm not a lot of help since I have yet to make my first fairy house despite having all kinds of cool things to do it with. The link below is to the Garden Junk photo album that purplemoon put together. The link is to the Fairy N Gnome Homes album but it is more like Better Homes & Garden for the wee people set. he-he I know you'll love it! Welcome to a very fun and inspiration forum! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Fairy N Gnomes Homes
RE: Fairy Garden
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| Thank you all for the great ideas! This is a very friendly forum :) Hollyhocks sound like a great idea and I will try to find some of the fairy garden "open houses" which sound like a lot of fun. You've all given me a lot to think about and I'll let you know as soon as I figure out how to post pictures. Some other people have been asking about fairy gardens on the cottage garden forum. I will tell them to look here for help! |
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| Well, I didn't get as much done in my fairy garden as I would have liked to (quack grass invaded) but next year I'm digging out all the grass and putting in edgers! I ended up moving some of my plants (away from the grass) but the area around the bird bath is starting to look really nice. I added a guara and the coneflower in front of the butterfly bush looks really pretty. Next spring I am going to put in hollyhocks and maybe some ferns on the shady side. I'm still in the planning stages, but appreciate any input on plants or accessories that anyone may have. Also, I did get a little bridge (for fish tanks) last week and I'm going to put that in the garden next year. It's missing one of the "finials" which was broken off in the store, but since it was the only one, I got it anyway. I figure we can make up a great story about how that happened...maybe when the fairies were battling the leprechauns. LOL |
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