a fairy garden for the garden fairies

One of the things on my summer bucket list was to make a fairy garden.  (I made fairy small world/sensory bins at school - but never a fairy garden for my garden fairies.)

Check!

I had a barrel ready and waiting.  Just one clematis climbing the fence and providing a lovely backdrop for fairy frolics.

Next was a trip to my local friendly garden shop.  (They really are friendly: every Christmas they come to the school with all the fixin's for my kidlets to make Christmas centrepieces, and every June we visit the store for fun and planting.)  

We scoured the shelves and nooks and crannies for fairy friendly plants.  

I brought home a collection of sensory bin sparklies from school.

And then my artistic Hannah came over for dinner and she took over from there.

She decided that the path was the first order of business.

Next was plant placement.  

When we were delighted with how everything fit together, my artistic Hannah morphed into gardener Hannah.

She is a gifted fairy garden creator.  

Now the fairies that live behind the fairy door have somewhere, just for them, to enjoy the early morning sunshine and the cool night air. 

No doubt, the fairies are pitter pattering down the path, dipping their toes into the pool and muttering to themselves about the lack of somewhere to sit down and rest.  

Yes, yes.  I'll see about some chairs.