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Who else is interested in fairy gardens? I have a garden in progress now with fairy houses built from bark and natural objects. It will have paths, a fairy pond and other fairy village miniature settings among the flowers. Started it with my kids, but it is more for me now, I think. Are there other people who have fun with this?

I am interested too. I am about to start working on one this spring. My daughter wants me to include one of those $300 fairy castles but I am trying to find something a little cheaper. I would love to see pictures as you are working on yours.

Hi everyone, my name is Karen. I live in Orange Co., CA. I have made several fairy gardens in pots and wooden boxes using miniature plants and fairies. Now I am collecting to make a garden in the ground with miniature ancient castles and a very small pond with a water wheel house. Does anyone have an idea on how to make miniature flat stones about 1/2 inch size? I'd like to cement them onto the castles I already have to give them that ancient look. When I have pics I will post them.

I would love to see pictures of your fairy garden, fairylady. My son made a gnome in art class 7 years ago. He was throwing it away so I put it in my garden, then made a door out of parts of an old swing and attached it to my oak tree. I also wanted fairies in this garden but I am looking for ideas.
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This thread about fairy gardens here sounds like so much fun! Great to read all the posts... our dd is fascinated by this kind of stuff as one of our favorite films is "Fairy Tale: the True Story".

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I am interested in making a fairy garden with a unique little fairy house. Any ideas would be appreciated. Pictures would also help. I just love the little fairy houses that are on Fairy Woodland. I would love to make my own but not sure where to start. HELP!Mary

I am working on a Fairy Garden ~ have been for about 3 years now :) Everything takes time and $$. I have a 12' x 12' Gazebo set up with all different colors of roses and trumpet vines around it. Tucked under the leaves are different fairy's, gnomes, frogs, turtles.... The entrance is 6' x 7' and 12' tall with grape vine growning over it (I make wine out of them). I'm pouring flower & leaf stepping stones for the floor - just a few at a time due to intense heat!

My latest addition is a stump from a cotton wood tree ~ 2' high and about 3' around, with a 'bowl' cut out of the top for plants. I stained it last night and will put a door, windows and a deck on it this weekend. Beside it will be a wishing well and a dry creek bed with bridge over it. (I got these off of eBay and they are sooooo cute)

My daughter is 12 and wanted her own garden. I had a raised flower bed, 20' x 20' that she put up a teepee in. Planted morning glories, pole beans, black eyed susans & other flowering vines around it. For the 'yard' part she has moss roses, petunas and other ground cover flowering annuals. Behind the teepee she planted chocolate scented & maxamillion sunflowers for shade. On the East side of it she cleared a 5' x 20' space for a deck and planted a butterfly bush. Most everything is pink as that is her favorite color. She also has bird baths, gnomes, fairy's & plant stakes of every animal you can think of!

Have fun with making your fairy gardens!

Sounds beautiful. I'm just getting started. Planted roses,butterfly bushes,small hosta's and a few other plants. I got 4 garden birdseed holding fairies at dollar store for half off today. I got 3 garden stake fairies for flower pots from ebay. Now I'm trying to find a fairy house. I like the looks of some gourd fairy houses. Just have to play around with them for awhile.

Wynative- Do you have any pictures? I'd love to see them :)

My daughter has made her own little fairy garden. She loves the movie Fairytale: a True Story. She makes her own little outfits for her dolls out of things she finds in the garden, mostly flower petals and leaves. Then she photographs the dolls in poses throughout the garden.

She also has a succulent collection that has little fairy statues living among the plants that show up in different spots. The succulents are ideal fairy garden plants for her because they are small, easily transplanted, easily propagated, and very forgiving if she forgets to water for long periods. I consider them magical plants for children.

Here is a link to a couple other photos of her garden and doll outfits.

Here is a link that might be useful: fairies in the garden

Lianne- Your daughter's doll dresses are adorable! My nieces would love something like that for their dolls. Your garden is wonderful and I especially like the grape arbor with the hopscotch stones :)

I am going to work on this next year.

See if your library has a copy of Tracy Kane's book, Fairy Houses, which is the first in a series. Nice story, lovely illustrations, inspiration for children and adults alike.

At our park we have an event every June (as close to Midsummer's eve as I can make it) in which children (aided by adults, and I don't know who really has more fun) build fairy houses in the gardens using only natural materials. No staples, wire, glue, etc. We read Tracy Kane's book first, for inspiration, and review the fairy building codes (never pick or otherwise harm anything growing, and only use artificial materials) before going outside to build. After about 90 minutes of building, we tour the "community" and the children can tell about their houses while we hand out "fairy food" (bird seed mixed with different colored split peas), which is served up in seed pods. Anyone is welcome to stay as long as they like, of course, but they're usually finished and happily pick up coloring sheets with pictures of different fairies and a handout on how to create a fairy garden at home (which, coincidentally, is also friendly to butterflies and beneficial insects) as they leave their creations behind. Some come back later in the week to visit; most visitors often find them charming. The houses - or remains thereof after the forces of nature have had their way with them - remain in place for at least a week.

We've held three such events now, and I'm still amazed at the originality and creativity displayed.