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Posted by lavender_lass WA zone 3/4 (My Page) on Tue, Aug 18, 09 at 15:57
| I was looking for ideas for fairy gardens and found this idea.
Jack and the Beanstalk was represented by planting climbing beans on four foot tall, thin bamboo poles (making a narrow teepee, so when they grew together, the beans would look like one stalk) with a little house at the bottom, a small figure "Jack" climbing the pole beans and a larger "Giant" figure at the top.
I don't remember which site this was on, but I thought it was a great idea to bring some "boy ideas" into the garden. I've been planning a fairy garden for my nieces, but I think some clever ideas like this might entice my nephews to get more involved.
Does anyone else have some good ideas for fairy tale gardens? I'm interested in anything for boys, girls, or both, but I don't want anything too elaborate. I'm still a beginner gardener :) |
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How about garden with leprecons, a type of male faerie said to inhabit the island of Ireland before people did. They were cobblers. Or how about wizards or nymphs or munchkins or gnomes or sprites, or luchorpán--a pigmy,or a leprechaun-'a kind of aqueous sprite'" or or or Alphonse in Wonderland? chuckle The options are endless for little boys.
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| That's a great idea. I will have to include a few leprechauns for my nephews :) I have one nephew who wants to help in the vegetable garden next year (that's who the Jack and the Beanstalk is for), while I'm also planning a mini pumpkin patch of the little orange and white baby pumpkins to recreate Linus' "great pumpkin" patch. Any ideas to dress up watermelon (his favorite)? |
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| My grandsons like helping me in our gnome garden. We made a school house out of a bird house and made a rustic swing set, teeter totter, and sand box...I have tiny gnomes playing in there. Also we made a campground with picnic table, fire pit made from tiny rocks and little branches stacked up like a little teepee with yellow paper inside for the fire...it looks good. We have a flowing river there made of marbles and colored stones with a bridge and bears here and there...a rustic rock pathway leads up to a little gnome house is landscaped along the way with mini plants. We had fun and now we are making a gnome condo treehouse with climbing ladders up to the cute little houses in the branches... I'd send pictures but I'm new to this and haven't figured out how to do that yet... Hope this was helpful to you...have fun!!! |
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| I have given a small place in my garden for my son,i have planted grains in his broken toys making it look like a toy shop garden. since grains grow very fast he is thrilled and started doing the gardening himself. |
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| What great ideas! It's nice to see that gnomes and leprechauns are as popular as fairies in the garden. What a great idea to put plants in broken toys, keeping the kids interested in their garden and encouraging them to recycle their toys at the same time! |
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| I've made some new plans for the fairytale garden. Actually, it's getting incorporated into the main vegetable garden. The older kids wanted to be included, so I'm doing six 8'x 8' beds, each with a different theme. The corn/pumpkin patch will have a scarecrow (and maybe Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin) and will be in the back of the garden. Next to it will be the potato/bush beans bed and this is where I plan to put the leprechauns :) In the middle, one bed will be a pole bean teepee with broccoli behind it and the other will have the top half of an old arbor, with mini-pumpkins, gourds and cucumbers planted on it (making it look like some big spider) with melons in between each of the four legs (the boys love it). The front beds will be for the "Italian garden" (I got this plan on the BHG garden design website) with tomatoes, peppers, zucchini, onions, garlic, herbs, etc. and the last bed will be all miniatures. Cherry tomatoes, mini-carrots, mini-cabbage, small lettuce heads, spinach, mini-cukes, baby peas, etc. I still plan to have a few fairy tale things in here, but it's turning more into a story book garden, where the kids can be part of the story. I got the idea, when one of my nephews thought the bean teepee looked like it went up to the Giant's house. Still thinking of ideas for each garden, but would love any input you have. |
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