After getting the basic fairy garden components together, perhaps you would like a little more inspiration. Here are some pictures and resource ideas to ignite your imagination and inspire your own fairy garden. Scan down the page for plant suggestions Everything you want to know to start a Fairy Garden- link. All the steps to [...]

The History: The Victorian Age lasted over a long period and holds an evolution of style, but there are characteristics that stand out among Victorian gardens, just as there are in Victorian architecture and costume. This was a time when plant exploration came into its own. The middle class expanded with an accompanying barrage of [...]

[Part One] [Part Two] I love annuals. So much so, that it is a daunting task to try to profile all my favorites. As I was planting up my containers, it occurred to me that highlighting those I was combining in my pots and baskets would be an ideal way to group some of those [...]

My favorite garden author, Helen Van Pelt Wilson, had an intensely planted space she called her “Look Into” garden. Looking through a large casement window in her kitchen, she viewed this little plot of a garden every day. It existed purely for the pleasure of something pretty to look at on a daily basis. As [...]

Five Tips For Happy Containers Use sphagnum moss to retain moisture. Planting in sun? Don’t use dark colored containers which soak up more heat. Use the largest containers to give your plants the best root growing environment. Larger containers look more impressive, too. How you water is an extremely important part of container gardening. Use [...]

There are Kitchen gardens, and then there is the French potager. Like saying, there is cuisine, and then there is French cuisine. You may interpret the distinction in your own mind, but I think there is a subcategory that the French potager holds as all its own in the concept of kitchen gardens. Just as [...]

The honeybee populations of the USA have been drastically diminishing [Learn about Colony Collapse Disorder], and though no one knows exactly why, one factor is less foraging. We gardeners can do something about that! It is really important that you never use pesticides in your bee garden. They poison bees. Starvation is currently considered to [...]

Winter is a stark time for most of us in a temperate climate. Doubly so when a fresh snowfall creates lines and shapes, filled in with snowy white. We then see our garden in silhouette, and all its features are outlined for us to better judge the proportions and dimensions of our larger plantings and [...]

Making an all white garden used to be quite a popular undertaking. Although the idea probably started (in modern gardening times anyway) with Gertrude Jekyll in her book, Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden, it was Vita Sackville-West who created the most famous white garden at Sissinghurst Castle. This garden was “designed to be at [...]

While color-themed gardens intrigue in the planning stages, they can be a bit difficult to pull off. One drawback is the self-limiting nature of it… there are so many plants that attract our attention and to reduce them to only one color is quite a task. Then, next, the color blue is not a common [...]

Few of us will ever see a true prairie like the pioneers of old had seen, but we still have the plants, and many of those are ideal for the challenging conditions of drought. Prairies are rare now, but some enthusiasts believe you can have a little piece of the prairie in even the smallest [...]

Garden ornaments are a tricky topic. You are going to risk offending someone or another if you say something is tacky… and it is just your opinion, anyway, right? Well, though my own taste tends towards the garden of little and classic ornament, I have seen all sorts of flourishes done well. From the Medicis [...]

Wherever you decide to situate a fairy garden it may end up being as fun and entrancing as any miniature world of tiny houses and furnishings could be!

Pretty Up Just About Anyplace Be sure to see…Favorite Container Ideas5 Container Tips Creating your own brightly colored accents Containers make eye catching focal points, or can even comprise an entire garden picture when grouped together. With the variety within the components of container style, size, and combination of plants the effects and uses are [...]

Like the Kitchen garden, and sometimes a part of it, the cutting garden is made in response to desire for fresh bouquets and flowers for arrangements. “Arrangements” sounds formal, like the professional florists art, and you may have that in mind, but many people just like to pick a bunch of flowers, stick them casually [...]