Merely Me's idea of distracting ourselves from depression made me think of this fairy garden I started last year with some "buildings" I found in a catalog and little animal and fairy figurines discovered here and there, including Target. It's hard to see the details here, I know, but there are chickens, a lamb, a cow, a horse, a gnome, a fairy riding a horse while holding a baby, as well as some furnishings like a bench and wheelbarrow. My husband helped me by putting up the circular wall around it and filling it with dirt, pea gravel and moss. Today I bought a few more things to try to add some color to it which aren't in this picture. Anyway, it reminds me of something medieval and magical and makes me smile when I see it from our porch window.
Oh my gosh...so cute.
How did you do this? Where did you get the idea from? What a lovely little minature garden. I would love to do this too.
I am sad about my vegetable garden this year. It keeps raining everyday and washing off the mammal repellent...this coyote urine stuff which works if it is not washed away. The deer came to my garden and ate the tops off my plants...ate a cucumber...spit it out...they don't even like it! and then trapsed away into the night. Have any ideas about keeping deer away?
Anyways...your post gives me joy. Thanks so much for sharing this. It was a nice treat.
Hi, Merely Me. I'm sorry about those deer eating your plants, I know it can be a real problem. The coyote urine is the only thing I've heard of, except for a friend of mine who used to put a really high wire fence around his vegetable gardens to keep them out. One day he had 18 deer in his back yard!
The fairy garden idea I got from some garden tours we had been on. One was a tiny thing on a table and at another house, they had several of them surrounding the bases of trees. One day, in a catalog I saw that these resin buildings that looked so rustic and old-country that I'd had my eye on went on clearance for half price, so that did it! Then last year, I found these fake stone-looking kits that you could create circular gardens with so my husband put it together for me. The moss has tiny little white flowers in the spring, otherwise I don't have any real plants in there because it's so shady and I don't want anything to take it over. My grandson gets a kick out of it. After he's played with it or after it rains, I have go out there and put aright everything that might have gotten knocked over! Glad you enjoyed it.