How to Create a Fairy Garden Indoors or Out
© Linda Mazar
Designing and creating a fairy garden requires you know a a bit of fairy lore. Find out which plants are traditionally associated with fairies. Place the garden in a corner in the garden, a fern patch, an opening by the base of an old tree, a small space by a pond, a garden specifically made of miniature plants, a terrarium or even in a container garden.
You can make a trough of hypertufa, a homemade concrete mixture with a stone-like finish. If you make one for outside, be sure to allow holes for drainage. Once the container is completed, you can fill it with small alpine (rock garden) plants.
If you want a small indoor fairy garden try using a bowl, a sturdy planting tray, or a terrarium. If your garden is in the fern patch or elsewhere outside, you may want to use the current plants or maybe add a few fairy favorites.
Adding Accessories to the Fairy Garden
Use store-bought dollhouse accessories or make your own accessories rom things around your garden and home. A few chairs or rocks would provide seating for tired fairies, a table made of bark or popsicle sticks could have acorn cups and and walnut shell bowls for hungry fairies. A small pile of soft pine needles or a patch of moss could be a bed, and so on.
A miniature Christmas ornament could serve as a gazing ball for the fairy garden. Perhaps a small upside down flower pot with the saucer on top of it could serve as a bird bath.
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