Welcome to the forum Cadillactaste!! We love fairy gardens here and yours is especially nice. Love the bonsai tree and the little chair with the faux flowers, but I especially like the container! Is it made of stone or concrete? Really cute. Thanks so much for sharing it with us and I hope you'll share more of your projects with us too.

Thank you Marlene for your kind words. I was extremely pleased with how it turned out. Surprised because in my head I envisioned something completely different when I headed out that day to put together or purchase a fairy garden.

The little chair is actually a garden gate that I hung a bird house from.

As to the container. That was what "sold me" on making my very own fairy garden. I just HAD to have it. What it's made from...I almost think it is a type of pottery with a stone distressed finish.

We're trying to plan another Amish Country trip. I so would love to do an outdoor fairy garden. Though I wonder if it's to late in the year to really plan one. Or if one just brings it inside...since I'm leaning toward some sort of container style.

Love it! Is the store by any chance called "Country Gatherings" in Berlin, OH?

Arlene

No wonder the lady wanted it!! Very nice & love the fairy & birdhouse with gate. The container is so natural looking. TFS Jan

I love it!! I've never made a fairy garden, but this is inspiring me to try one.

Glad you found us so we can see the wonderful
creation you made!
I just read your member page--so glad you posted
a paragraph there! Most people don't. I love it
when they do.
Come back often!

Recently added this bird bath...just realized that I didn't post a current photo from photobucket.

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Arlene it very possibly was that store...that was where we went shopping.

Thanks Jan, I wasn't rude to the woman who tried to take it...because I took it as a compliment!

Laurastheme I say GO FOR IT! It was quite fun putting this together. Again totally in the opposite direction as I had pictured in my minds eye.

I'm just amazed everytime I see one of the gardens.

I LOVE the birdbath! So cool! And I have no idea why I thought that was a chair...it plainly has a birdhouse hanging from it...oh well, yesterday was a very long day.

Oh this is very cool! You chose just the right accessories for it! No wonder that lady slid it her way! I love the container & the ivy plant, too! Jeanne S.

Marlene we've all had days like that...I call it a garden gate, but it very likely is also a trellis. lol To each person's vision I reckon.

Jeanne, thanks! The ivy at first looked centered and draped the entire planter. But I was easily able to pull it back to one side. The container is what sold me on it. I am an avid bird watcher...and have bird accessories around the house. So this was just so fitting for my decor.

Well, now that I do bonsai...having a plastic tree in my fairy garden has been bugging me. So, I tossed in this double blooming bougainvillea "Cherry Blossom" it's on the verge of blooming. How exciting!

The anticipated bloom...the soft colors of the bracts are lovely.

Thanks sunny-gw...one never knows until the bracts start to develop if a tree is tagged correctly. I've a few bougainvillea bonsai. One tagged the wrong color...so I was holding my breath hoping this one showed true form and double blooms. Since they are called paper flowers...I tucked this away in the greenhouse last night with the storm about to roll through. I don't want to lose those blooms until they are at the final peak of their showing. These are to stay longer on the tree than typical bracts. So that's also exciting.