With Cicely Mary Barker flower fairy
Story Telling Tree Fairy Garden
What you need:
Baby Sweet Pea Flower - Cicely Mary Barker Flower Fairy or you can use a resin non-breakable fairy (both from M&M Nursery Orange, CA)
Story Telling Tree (M&M Nursery)
large terra cotta bowl with drain hole [5.25 inches High x 14 inches Diam.] (M&M Nursery)
1 ‘Coprosma Repens’ small tree (M&M Nursery)
2.5 inch x 2.5 inch piece of screen or netting so soil doesn’t come out of draining hole in terra cotta bowl.
3 or 4 Four inch plants 'Charm' variety, Heron's Bill (Erodium chamaedryoides ) full sun, silver green ground cover with pink flowers (M&M Nursery)
2 two inch containers of ‘Needlepoint Ivy’ (M&M Nursery)
Planting soil - approximately a gallon
2 sections of small white picket fence (purchase here)
2-3 large river rocks (purchase here)
Supplies Recommended:
pair of potting gloves or Nitrile gloves
Steps: 9
Plant Cost: $44.88
Rated: Easy Arrangement
We all have images of the benevolent talking trees from the Lord of the Rings movies. This fairy garden takes some of that imagery and pairs it with the darling Baby Sweet Pea Flower Fairy of Cicely Mary Barker stories. The miniature tree, ivy and flowers are just the right scale to make this enchanted scene feel real, and the white picket fence brings back memories from childhood stories.
The miniature tree is placed behind the Story Telling Tree and it looks as if the Story Telling Tree is a living tree. The ‘Charm’ pink flowers form a wild field around the baby and the miniature ivy winds its way around the picket fence.
And if you happen to have young fairy garden lovers picking up the fairies, the photos at the end of this post show an alternate non-breakable fairy that came from M&M Nursery. I didn’t get her name, but she’s cute and it’s worth a drive if you are nearby to visit M&M Nursery. They have an on-line store, but more options at their nursery. It’s magical. They are located in Orange CA. Here is a link to their site: http://www.fairygardenexpert.net/
If you have your container, plants, fairy and tree, let’s begin.
Here are the supplies you will use.
Put a 2.5 inch x 2.5 inch piece of netting or screen over the draining hole.
Pour in potting soil, Leave room for tree.
Dig a hole on the back left to plant the tree in.
Plant the tree.
Plant the ‘Charm’ (pink flowers.)
Like so.
Place Story Telling Tree in front of the live Coprosma tree.
Put in 2 sections of fence, slightly overlapping both in the back.
Plant the ivy in back of the tree bringing it around the picket fence.
Let your helper place 2 river rocks in back of the tree.
Like so.
Magical.
Sit the fairy on the little dish.
This enchanting miniature garden looks real.
Baby Sweet Pea Flower Fairy is made of porcelain and hand painted.
If you have little helpers in your fairy garden, this resin fairy isn’t breakable.
You are done. Enjoy the Story Telling Tree and Baby Sweet Pea Flower Fairy.