A New Fairy Garden . . . For Inside!

Somewhere we bought the old wheelbarrow

I'm really not sure why

But we did

And the first year we had it we planted it with pansies

In the fall . . .

(Much to my disdain -- I sent The Great Scott to the store for mums --

And he brought home pansies!

That was the year I learned what a joy pansies were

A mild winter and the wheelbarrow was abloom for most of it)

Then I became fascinated with fairy gardens

And I decided that the old wheelbarrow would make a perfect

fairy garden

And it does

With a wee cottage, an arbor, plants, a bath and fairies here and there and even a potting

shed, similar to the one at Linderhof!

The cottage I made myself at a class!

It looks like some of the cottages we saw in England

I must saw that come July, the fairies are not very tidy gardeners!

Yesterday, I was at Red Cedar and fell in love

With a myrtle topiary made into a "wee" fairy garden

Alas, it was more than my purse could bear

But they did have the components

And the components were very reasonable

And so it all came home with me

I put it together this morning

It's a charming fairy garden

for inside!

I had the birch planter which I think is even more perfect for this fairy garden

Than the pot that theirs was in!

It lends a woodsy air to the garden!

A little moss to cover the soil,

a wee ladder

And a fairy in the "tree" holding a cat!

It reminds me of my childhood

When I would prop a ladder to a tree and climb up on a low branch

And sit and take in my surroundings from this high up perch.

Sometimes I would even take a book and read!

And while at Red Cedar, I also bought a house and things

to transform a planter into a fairy garden for Grand Girl Lucy --

her second birthday present from Poppy and Nana.