Make your own Fairy Garden!

The popular gardening trend lately is 

fairy gardening, perfect for those 

little areas you're not quite sure what to 

do with, or if you have kids or grandkids 

this is a perfect project to do together!

I thought I would do a little DIY 

Fairy garden, if you love 

container gardening or don't have 

a ton of space for gardening 

listen up! 

The first thing you will need is a container, 

you can pick anything from an old wagon 

to a birdbath, or even an old suitcase!

Once you start scrounging around, 

the ideas are endless! 

Think twice before you throw out 

old "junk" it may become a new found

treasure. 

Next, you will need soil 

and an arbor or something to become 

the focal point of your fairy garden. 

It could be a little miniature house or 

anything!

and some little stones for a pathway

And last but not least you will need 

plants! We usually recommend using about 

4 to 5 plants per container, but it just depends 

on how big your space is. 

Now, once you have all you need, 

the first thing you are going to want to do is

fill your container with soil, I usually fill it to the 

top and pat it down so that when you water your plants 

in it won't sink down below the surface.

The next thing you are going to do is 

place your arbor or focal point 

where you want, we usually recommend 

putting it in the back corners of your space,

that way you are looking in to your 

fairy garden and you can place all of your 

little miniatures in the front where everyone will be 

able to see them. 

My arbor was a little too tall for my container, 

if this happens to you, just snip off the  

 ends of your arbor with a wire cutters, so that the 

bottom rim sits on top of the soil. 

Now for planting! 

I usually will plant my wire vine first, right by 

my arbor so that it climbs over it, make sure the you 

plant your ivy or vine nice and close! 

Next plant we recommend is 

Baby Tears! This is such a great plant for 

many reasons, we love it for fairy gardens 

because you can break it apart into small little 

pieces, it's great in the shade, outside or in a 

sun porch, and for winter you can bring it 

inside! We LOVE this one. 

Succulents are also great plants for fairy gardens! 

If you have plants around the house that have 

sprouted lots of little babies, all you have to do is 

cut a few babies off and poke them in the soil and 

they will root themselves! If you don't believe me, 

try it for yourself! 

When you are all done planting

don't forget to water in your fairy garden. 

Now go out and make one!

Start by looking for the perfect container, this is 

a great time of year for container hunting too, 

any garage sale you see, STOP and pull in

 you may just find your PERFECT fairy 

garden container. 

Happy Hunting! 

xoxo 

~ Lynn & Kathi