Mini Fairy Garden World (2024)

FAQs

How do you make a fairy garden step by step? ›

“The basic elements of a fairy garden are miniature plants, fairies and their friends [like dogs, cats and ducks] and accessories,” says Bawden-Davis. “Accessories run the gamut, from tiny watering pails to little rakes and hoes to birdbaths, benches, gazebos and gazing globes.

Tent Fit For a Fairy

Create the perfect place for a fairy to rest with skewers, twine and scrap fabric. Glue cut skewer pieces together to create a tent frame and secure with twine binding. Trim scrap fabric to lay evenly over the frame and secure with hot glue as needed.

It is believed that fairies are the original, magically powerful inhabitants of the British Isles that were driven underground by warring invaders. By creating a fairy garden, you can open a passageway for fairies to join the human world, bringing with them their magical powers and often a bit of mischief as well.

Shiny things—fairies love to look at their reflection, so include shiny things like a mirror or a dish of water in your garden design.

Since nature doesn't usually conform to straight lines, a fairy garden shouldn't be shaped like some sort of rigid box. Fairies seem to like spaces that flow. In general, fairies don't like to be seen, so placing stones to hide behind and small hollowed out logs to shelter in will make them more comfortable.

Sunflowers, lilacs, yarrow, coneflowers, cosmos and daisies are other fairy favorites.

Making a fairy garden is simple – you only need a few supplies. The “tricky” part is the fun part – using your imagination to set up and arrange a tiny little world. Depending on how much up-keep you want to put into your creation once you build it, you can use real or fake plants in your fairy garden.

Do fairy gardens need drainage? ›

The other essential consideration with a container is drainage. Ideally, there should be a few drainage holes that are standard in most gardening pots. If there are no holes because you have gone with the wheelbarrow option, you will first need to line the bottom with gravel or the broken shards of a terracotta pot.

Many fairy gardens use planters, terra cotta pots, or galvanized buckets as their base, but anything that holds dirt will do. (Preferably it would be something with drainage holes in the bottom, to prevent your plants from getting waterlogged.)

Making fairy habitat: whether you believe in magic folk or not, to successfully make part of the garden feel magical you need to create a space where you can imagine a fairy could live. You need romantic plantings. You need flowers. You need bird, bee and butterfly attracting plants.