Create Your Own Landscape Fairy Garden

A fairy garden that creates a large landscape within your existing yard is a special kind of garden. When you are planning a miniature garden, you do not want to limit yourself by thinking small, even if most of the landscape includes miniature plants and tiny garden accessories. You can have a relatively big fairy scene within your yard, which is also known as a fairyhood or miniscape within the miniature, fairy garden community. If you ever have a big empty space in your yard where you want to create something unique, a plot utilizing a fairyhood would be the perfect opportunity.

From what I have seen online and within the miniature garden shops, these large fairy gardens are definitely eye catching and make a huge statement when added as a part of the landscape around your home. A good friend of mine has a whole section of her manicured backyard dedicated to a vegetable garden with a large fairyhood in the middle. She created a miniature garden oasis surrounded by many large, edible growing plants, which they believe are delicacies that garden fairies appreciate. Her youngest daughter helps her decorate the fairy garden and she takes care of the vegetables as well. Miniature gardening is a summer project they share with each other - a special bonding moment for mother and daughter.

To design a fairyhood, you want to start with a large space within your yard that shows off every part of the miniscape you have created. Consider building tiers within the landscape to vary the height and add some dimension to the design. When you start adding the accessories, begin by selecting a fairy house that will be located at the top of your fairyhood and becomes a large focal point for your garden. A favorite of mine is a bigger-than-normal house called, “Large English Cottage,” which is 24-inches wide and 14-inches high. This fairy house will be a home where the richest and most affluent fairies live. Of course, you would want to select some miniature plants that mimic trees to surround the house, such as Cotoneaster dammeri, Streibs Findling, which looks like a flowering tree with the perfect little apple dangling from its branches. You might want to create a patio with loose gravel in front of your home and a small fence bordering the perimeter. Remember to place little patio chairs and tables to give the fairies a nice breakfast spot in front of their home.

As you move down each tier within your garden, consider adding unique homes, an assortment of miniature plants, and a collection of garden accessories. You could even add steps and sidewalks connecting each home, which lead towards different destinations in the miniscape. This will create a connected fairy neighborhood, and you could even add a small park within the space or even a lake scene with a path leading up to a beach with a bonfire surrounded by Adirondack chairs.

What these fairyhoods should really impress is the sense of community, while they honor your favorite neighborhoods. Since I passionately love fishing, my fairyhood would involve a miniscape near a beach, so I could add a miniature water feature with a fishing boat and some fairy friends sitting in the boat as it floats along in the water. At the end of the day, these fairyhoods or miniscapes should capture the eye of any friendly neighbor, take up as much as space as you would like, and express a sense of family and community.