Secret Doorways for Garden Fairies

Gardens come in many different shapes and sizes. Miniature gardens might be full of fairy houses, garden accessories, miniature plants, pebbles, and more. When guests walk through a fairy garden or peer into a planted container, their minds can spin with ideas, stories, and surprises. What better way to create interest in your miniature garden than with a unique entrance! Just one tiny door can open unlimited questions for visitors:

•    Who is that peeking through the door?

•    What could be on the other side?

•    Where does the door lead…another garden? Another world?

•    Do fairies go in and out of that door?

•    Are there other doors to discover?

See? A door can take your fairy garden from dull to dynamic in the blink of an eye. They can be simple to incorporate, too. Affixing a door to the base of a tree or wall instantly creates interest and questions—do miniature fairies live inside that tree trunk? These doorsFirst Signs of Spring can stand alone or include accessories such as a pebble path, stoop, steps, or carefully placed greenery. Including mailboxes and signs, placed near the doors, can add a fun bit of attention as well.

There are endless places within the miniature garden that could be a unique fit for a secret fairy door. An entrance on a terra cotta pot can lead fairies in and out of a flower-topped home. Lean a door against the leg of a picnic table, touching the steps of your porch/deck, or alongside an outdoor stone fireplace—your entire yard could be a land of adventure and secret routes for fairies!

Do your garden residents have their own miniature cars? If so, a fairy door affixed to the garage instantly creates a fairy-sized entrance. Once inside that shed or garage, consider placing a door between books Fairy Door Treasure Mapon the shelf, or attaching a small entry to a workbench leg. Sometimes fairies like to leave the garden and get some work done!

Fairy doors not only provide eye-catching interest for adult visitors, but they can be of acute curiosity to children, especially when placed at ground level. A child’s mind is free to create all sorts of stories about what exists behind those doors, and if you get a group of kids together, they will love to play a game of Spot the Fairy Doors. If your garden fairies like to receive notes, letters, or even little homemade gifts, a door might be the ideal place for children to leave their fairy mail. When the kids return, they might also find that the garden fairies have delivered a letter to them...

Remember, you do not have to purchase each door that goes into your fairy garden. Homemade doors can provide a personalized look—think popsicle sticks, wood, glue, paint, and voila, a door! Be careful: Once you “open the door” to DIY garden doors, you may never look back. There is no limit to what you can dream up and discover when it comes to secret fairy doorways in a miniature garden.

 

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