"Garden fairies come at dawn, Bless the flowers then they're gone." - author unknown
A fairy garden can be as small and simple as one flower pot, or as full and fancy as your whole backyard... Come learn about the magic of fairy gardens, including favorite fairy plants and flowers and what to avoid if you don't want to chase the fairies away!
Backyard Fairy Gardens
how to make your garden more attractive to fairies
Some people incorporate the idea of fairy gardening into their backyard gardens. Having something that incorporates natural design and methods as well as a lot of flowers is the basic idea. From there you get to decide just what and where you'd like your garden to have fairy features.
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- Learn how to make a fairy garden that both fairies and butterflies will love!
- Create a Fairy Garden, attract fairies, favorite flowers, special garden
- What better way to invite the wee folk into your garden than by creating a special garden just for them. To make them feel welcome, plant a few of their favorite flowers or herbs, and add some natural building materials such as small rocks, twigs or shells for them to make their home.
- Gardening : Other : Fairies and Other Themes for Gardens : Home & Garden Television
- A theme can be a great opportunity for creative gardening. Here, how to create a fairy garden.
- A Fairy Corner For Early Spring Herbs by Jim Long
- There's an old tradition in the Ozarks, where I live, that likely arrived with the early immigrants from England and Scotland. The practice calls for leaving one corner of the garden untilled, so that fairies might have a place to hide. Everyone knows that fairies come out at night and straighten out the flower petals left amiss by the bees' daytime cavorting. And it's the fairies who sprinkle dew on the sweet woodruff leaves and put a single silvery dew drop on the center of every lady's mantle leaf to reflect the first rays of early morning sunlight.
- Fairy Gardens, Herbs & Flowers
- A Fairy Garden can be anything your imagination thinks it is. Nature has provided us with all sorts of fairy gardens - inviting habitats that bestow an air of tranquility, a sense of safety, elements of beauty - all important attributes the Wee Folk would seek out.
On Fairy Gardening...
To Live With the Fairy Folk: A Guide to Attract Benevolent Spirits
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Fairies Love Flowers!
If there's one thing that gardeners agree on, it's that fairies love flowers. You'll want to plant a variety so that you have a range of color that blooms from spring until the fall (or year-round if you are in a warm enough climate). Keeping the yard by natural methods, having some fruit trees or bushes, some sort of water feature and little nooks and crannies are all elements associated with having a healthy fairy garden.Flowers which resemble bells have long been associated with fairies. Fairy lore holds that they are used to make parts of their clothing (hats and skirts), they become cradles for fairy babies, little boats or even whole houses for the tiniest Fey Folk. So, if you wish to encourage fairies in your garden, you'll want some belled flowers.
But what to plant? Whatever you do, make sure there's a variety and you don't have to be suck a stickler for having the grass perfectly manicured or every single week pulled. Fairies tend to like gardens that have a touch of unkemptness about them.
Fairies can be fond of...
Honeysuckle
Foxglove
Clematis
Tulips
Bellflower
Swallowtail
Native wildflowers
Berry bushes and vines
Roses
Moss
Clover
Buttercups
Anything that bees, butterflies or hummingbirds like
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Miniature Fairy Gardens
tabletop or container gardening for fairies
For the urban gardener, it's often best to create a fairy garden that doesn't require a large space. These can be fun accents on the deck or inside the home and are great fun to build with children.
- Gardening with Fairies
- Will these tiny, sprightly landscapes actually attract fairies? To find out, follow these guidelines, and keep your eyes open for magic.
- DailyOM - Creating A Fairy Garden
- It's fun to believe in fairies, even if it's just "make believe" that you believe. Creating a fairy garden makes "make believe" yet more fun and may even invite some magic into your life.
- BUILD YOUR OWN FAIRY GARDENS
- Wildflowers help feed wildlife. So why not growing some? We are sure the fairies would approve - after all, it is often said that fairies like to live in wild flowers... so why not grow some?
See a Fairy Garden-in-Progress
Avoid Iron In Your Garden
In the majority of fairylore, the substance of iron is considered insulting, harmful or injurious to most fairies. Some tales specify "cold iron" and some do not. You will want to avoid using this metal for fencing, accents or accessories in your garden if you are working to encourage the Fey Folk to live there.
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- windowbox windowbox Jan 20, 2009 @ 3:22 am
- Great Lens.. abt gardening but people who do not have such space at there home can move to container gardening by using containers like Flower Window Boxes, Window Box Planter, Window Box
Planter and all of these will bring enormous beauty for your house%u2026
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- samantha samantha Nov 21, 2008 @ 5:54 pm
- Jenny,
Thanks for the TickleMe Plant post...it is now my Fairies favorite plant. They use this herb to make different potions....did you know it sleeps at night by closing its leaves and lowering its branches too
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- jpetals jpetals Nov 15, 2008 @ 10:11 am
- What a wonderful and original lens. I had no clue about the iron fact and will make sure to not add any to my garden. Great lens. =)
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- Jenny Jenny Oct 17, 2008 @ 6:59 pm
- Another great addition to a fairy garden is to grow a TickleMe Plant from seeds and then watch the plant MOVE when Tickled! As a first grade teacher I no longer plant Lima beans, as the growing of this interactive plant, proved to be much more exciting and educational for my student's.
I found my supplies for a classroom kit at www.ticklemeplant.com but they also sell individual greenhouses and even party favors, with everything you need to grow your own TickleMe Plant from seeds. I assure you your kids will be more excited about gardening, and its just fun to watch the expressions of the faces of children (and even adults) when they see the plant close its leaves and droop when tickled,
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- Stinky Stinky Aug 20, 2008 @ 9:23 am
- What Fun! I love your faery garden!
We all need a magical place. Thanks for your interesting and enjoyable lens!
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