"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!
Backyard Fairy Gardens
how to make your garden more attractive to fairies
- Fairy Garden - how to make a fairy garden, what flowers to plant to attract Fairies to your garden
- 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
Explore Fairy Gardens - photo gallery
For many years I was employed at Red Cedar Country Gardens. The owner, Ricki, is...
I bought a few new additions for my fairy garden!
My beautiful Foxglove in my Fairy Garden.
Here is the topiary of Tinkerbell that sits in the middle of her fairy garden. S...
This was taken at the M&M nursery in Orange, CA. It's a tiny fairy gard...
Today I will roses feel for your sake,
Open the gate and step into the front garden of one of the Fairy Tale Cottages o...
"Ye field flowers! the gardens eclipse you 'tis true: Yet wildings of n...
2nd PLACE winner (three-way-tie) in the Impressed by your Beauty "MAKE...
Cicely Mary Barker Flower Fairy
Miniature Fairy Gardens
tabletop or container gardening for fairies
- 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.
Blogs from other Fairy Gardeners
- In The Fairy Garden
- These are the newest addition to my potted flowers. I completely messed with the color levels to create a fairy essence. The flowers are really purple with green leaves. I quite like how the effect turned out. The top photo especially ...
- my fairy garden
- fairy_pez_400x400.jpg Posted by: bendipez Description: was playing with the diamond qc....saw sands lotd using this qc and got inspired to play....
- Into Gold
- small coins as if a fortune might be found if we can save this day of brink tuck it into forever with a gentle tug brighten the gold with good memories. poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab. The Fairy Garden Poems # 36.
- Bound to Be
- and bending time papyrus scratched with symbols ...the scrape of a new shoe on an old sidewalk and the brightness of berries some bound to be bound to be tree. poem copyright ©2008 Anne Selden Annab. The Fairy Garden Poems # 35.
Do you have Fairies in your Garden?
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Stinky
What Fun! I love your faery garden! Posted August 20, 2008 |
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HeartMagic
What a wonderful lens! We are soon moving to very sacred land where the Fairies already live. Thanks for the wonderful ideas in terms of decorative and supportive resources in support of both respecting and enhancing the garden that we shall soon share. Posted August 17, 2008 |
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Pastiche
I'm quite certain there are fairies in my garden - why else would there be so many butterflies, praying mantis, fireflies and lovely fat toads? 5*s! Posted August 15, 2008 |
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stargazer00
Love fairies and fairy gardens. Thanks for the tips on what flowers will attract fairies! ;-) Posted August 07, 2008 |
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hale02
Cute lens! I will definately have to build a fsiry garden with my girls!! 5** and lensrolled to my Ladybug Land!! Posted July 03, 2008 |
