Make a Fairy Garden -Inspiration

Posted in Featured Articles, garden theme 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 make your own fairy garden, the place, the plants, and the...
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Outside My Window: A Look Into Garden

Posted in Featured Articles, garden design, garden theme 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 we grow older and desire less overall work, this sort of garden gains...
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Encouraging the Honeybees: Making a Bee Garden

Posted in Featured Articles, garden theme, insects, plant lists 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 be the leading cause of bee mortality.[1] So What...
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The White Garden

Posted in garden theme, landscaping, white flowers 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 its best in early July and especially in the evenings...
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The Blue Garden

Posted in Featured Articles, garden theme 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 one in nature, perhaps as an offset to all that sky. Finally, there is the color itself....
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Making a Fairy Garden

Posted in Featured Articles, Gallery, garden theme 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!
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