In today’s world, creating a spot in your own backyard where you can escape the stresses of the day is more important than ever. For more and more people, this means creating their very own backyard fairy garden. Whimsical, imaginative, and reminiscent of one’s childhood, a fairy garden can be great fun for you and your kids. If you’re eager to get started, here’s all you need to know to create a beautiful and magical garden.
Affordable Options
While this sounds like an expensive project, a fairy garden actually won’t cost much at all to create. Using a combination of live plants, small statues, and various types of furniture, swings, and fountains, you can easily do this with a smaller budget. In fact, as you look around your home, chances are you already have most of what you will need for your fairy garden.
Window Boxes
If your home has a window or two that contains a window box made for flowers, this can be the perfect spot for your fairy garden, especially if the window box is on a storage building in your backyard. Should you be tight on outdoor space and want a small fairy garden, you can add flowers and small pebbles to the mix. Also, place some small sticks here and there, since they will look like little trees in your magical garden.
Wheelbarrow Garden
Rather than put that old wheelbarrow out with the trash, transform it into a mystifying fairy garden. To do so, get some colorful flowers and a few bags of dirt and mulch from a local nursery like Lee’s Nursery and Landscaping. Next, start filling up your wheelbarrow with a decorative birdhouse, a white picket fence made from small sticks, and a clay pot turned on its side to resemble a cave. For an extra touch, add some LED lights to the birdhouse, then light it up after dark for an even more magical look.
The Life-Size Fairy Garden
If you want to actually spend time being able to walk through your very own fairy garden, transform part of your backyard into the place you envision in your mind. Using well-placed stepping stones, a few pathways here and there, and colorful flowers and fairy statues, you will soon be able to leave the troubles of the office behind and immerse yourself in a world that is carefree and beautiful.
By getting some ideas from landscaping professionals and combining them with your own imagination, it won’t be long until your backyard fairy garden is a reality.
