There is a great local nursery in Richmond, Texas called The Enchanted Forest. It is such a relaxing place to visit, filled with beautifully designed mini garden settings to inspire you. During a recent visit there, I discovered their “Fairy Garden.”
Isn’t it cute? After seeing it, I got inspired to make one of my own and started researching all kinds of itty bitty plants. I looked at a bunch online, but ultimately I ended up just going back to Enchanted Forest, buying some stuff there and plunging in!
I needed to do mine in a container because I don’t have a good permanent place to put a fairy garden, currently. After looking around for a while, I decided to do a tiered thing with multiple pots, as I couldn’t find a single, large pot that was the right size and shape within my budget.
I also decided to use a bird house as my fairy house. After all, a fairy has wings too, right? Makes perfect sense for a fairy to shack up in a bird house. So, after collecting all my goodies, my first step was to just set everything into the pots to figure out what would go where.
Once I got that figured out, I put the plants in, added the house and some rock paths and a couple of other accessories. Here are the final pots:
Here it is all together:
And here’s what I learned:
- It’s VERY easy to go overboard and want to buy a whole bunch of plants.
- Things that look tiny at the nursery look big when you put them in your fairy garden
- Make sure you water everything in BEFORE you put in your little rock pathways and such, otherwise dirt runs all over your pretty little pathways:
- And you will immediately want to make another one!
