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Posted by constantweeder PA (My Page) on Sat, Mar 3, 07 at 8:53
| There are some really adorable photos of Fairy Houses from the Philadelphia Flower Show on www.irishphiladelphia.com. The show theme this year is Ireland. There are also some photos of a children's garden (to die for!)created by a garden club in Camden, NJ. There's an adorable fairy house made out of a large Campbell's Soup can that doesn't look hard to make. I think kids could do it. |
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| What do you click on to see the pictures? |
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| Who else is interested in fairy gardens? I have a garden in progress now with fairy houses built from bark and natural objects. It will have paths, a fairy pond and other fairy village miniature settings among the flowers. Started it with my kids, but it is more for me now, I think. Are there other people who have fun with this? |
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| I am interested too. I am about to start working on one this spring. My daughter wants me to include one of those $300 fairy castles but I am trying to find something a little cheaper. I would love to see pictures as you are working on yours. |
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| Hi everyone, my name is Karen. I live in Orange Co., CA. I have made several fairy gardens in pots and wooden boxes using miniature plants and fairies. Now I am collecting to make a garden in the ground with miniature ancient castles and a very small pond with a water wheel house. Does anyone have an idea on how to make miniature flat stones about 1/2 inch size? I'd like to cement them onto the castles I already have to give them that ancient look. When I have pics I will post them. |
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I would love to see pictures of your fairy garden, fairylady. My son made a gnome in art class 7 years ago. He was throwing it away so I put it in my garden, then made a door out of parts of an old swing and attached it to my oak tree. I also wanted fairies in this garden but I am looking for ideas.
http://s160.photobucket.com/albums/t188/craftyjanjan/?IMG_0490.jpg |
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| This thread about fairy gardens here sounds like so much fun! Great to read all the posts... our dd is fascinated by this kind of stuff as one of our favorite films is "Fairy Tale: the True Story". careytearose |
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| Let me get straight to the point. The paranormal is extremely real and I have experienced the spirit world. When performing a seance at Frontenac Castle in Quebec, psychic medium Sol Sharmans contacted a number of spirits from a Canadian background. Lord Strathcona, William Christopher Freville, Cornelius Van Horne, and Louis de Buade. The ouija board was active throughout and one point Sol or Solihull performed the ancient art of table tipping. There was much communication between our psychic and the spirits, including telekinesis. All in all, everyone went home a firm believer. More information can be found at Paranormal Services Beyond. |
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| I am interested in making a fairy garden with a unique little fairy house. Any ideas would be appreciated. Pictures would also help. I just love the little fairy houses that are on Fairy Woodland. I would love to make my own but not sure where to start. HELP!Mary |
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| I am working on a Fairy Garden ~ have been for about 3 years now :) Everything takes time and $$. I have a 12' x 12' Gazebo set up with all different colors of roses and trumpet vines around it. Tucked under the leaves are different fairy's, gnomes, frogs, turtles.... The entrance is 6' x 7' and 12' tall with grape vine growning over it (I make wine out of them). I'm pouring flower & leaf stepping stones for the floor - just a few at a time due to intense heat! My latest addition is a stump from a cotton wood tree ~ 2' high and about 3' around, with a 'bowl' cut out of the top for plants. I stained it last night and will put a door, windows and a deck on it this weekend. Beside it will be a wishing well and a dry creek bed with bridge over it. (I got these off of eBay and they are sooooo cute) My daughter is 12 and wanted her own garden. I had a raised flower bed, 20' x 20' that she put up a teepee in. Planted morning glories, pole beans, black eyed susans & other flowering vines around it. For the 'yard' part she has moss roses, petunas and other ground cover flowering annuals. Behind the teepee she planted chocolate scented & maxamillion sunflowers for shade. On the East side of it she cleared a 5' x 20' space for a deck and planted a butterfly bush. Most everything is pink as that is her favorite color. She also has bird baths, gnomes, fairy's & plant stakes of every animal you can think of! Have fun with making your fairy gardens! |
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| Sounds beautiful. I'm just getting started. Planted roses,butterfly bushes,small hosta's and a few other plants. I got 4 garden birdseed holding fairies at dollar store for half off today. I got 3 garden stake fairies for flower pots from ebay. Now I'm trying to find a fairy house. I like the looks of some gourd fairy houses. Just have to play around with them for awhile. |
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| Dear socks, this is the link: http://www.irishphiladelphia.com/ST-flowershow110206 Some plants, herbs for fairy gardens:
Foxgloves, Saffron, Rosemary, Roses, Lavender, Oregano, Myrtle. ----------------------------------------------
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It was interesting to read that there are lots of people out there who like fairy and gnome gardens...I do too...
I've been working on mine for about 5 years now...I take tiny river stones and crushed sea shells to decorate the front like a rock house. The doors are all unique and I have a river flowing through it all made of colored marbles and glass stones...some of the little houses I put in up standing branches with climbing ladders up to them. The roofs have moss and nuts, shells, drift wood and various things found in the woods. I have pictures and will be posting them soon...
There is a school yard with teeter totter, swing set and sand box all made out of branches.... |
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| You all have such great ideas! I'd love to see pictures, if you have them :) Still getting ideas for my nieces' garden. |
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