Fairy Garden

4 Sep '06 6:12 pm

Dixie' delights are her creations! And even more, her artistic, poetic imagination together with a warm , sensitive heart , similar to a child's one! Lovely daisies, my sweet friend!! Your new Fairy looks like one I have in my living room! Isn't that great?

And Christopher's delights are, a) his flowers, with some of the best close ups he has ever presented us in his Gnome's Gardens, page 7!, and b)his pure and loving personality, like Dixie's!!Chris! Where have you been for so long!

Dixie and Chris!! In the gardening corner of my heart I think of you two in a very similar way....Thank you for being there! It feels good!

4 Sep '06 8:12 pm

Everyone who comes has a place here - a little friend who lives here too
Dixie

4 Sep '06 10:14 pm

Wow, my dear Dixie, I'm truly impressed with your gifts and talents and enchanted by this magical place of yours! Great work of art and imagination. Excellent job on the wishing well, mosaic tiles and lovely make-up on the lime green fairy Wink

. And your live pixie, Marion is so...ooo sweet and adorable!! Thanks for sharing. Smile

4 Sep '06 10:57 pm

Wow Dixie, what a wonderful and magical place!

Somehow I hadn't found this thread before today, but I have just read through it from start to finish with a childish wonder! I have a fairly impulsive nature to some degree, and whenever I find something like this, my thoughts cry - "I want that, too!" Sadly my garden at the moment is too small and has no nooks or crannies to speak of (also, my other plans are quickly filling the whole place up in my mind - until I can actually start planting!). However, I am not going to forget this beautiful idea and, when my husband and I are ready to move away from the suburbs and into the country (a true and deep dream for both of us), I will keep it in my mind and hopefully will be able to create a home to attract fairies of our own. Smile

4 Sep '06 11:17 pm

Dixie,

You mentioned earlier in this thread that you wanted to make some mushroom seats for your Fairy Garden, and I found this lovely site where they make all sorts of mushrooms for the garden: http://www.fungiforfun.co.uk/magic_garden_mushrooms.htm

I realise you may want to make them yourself rather than buying them, but I thought this gave some really good ideas, and I've just found another one: http://www.jcole.clara.net/FAIRYHOUSES.html (I'm having fun flicking between screens at the moment - I've got one browser open on Moosey and another with my Google search on it! Rolling Eyes

)

I think they are just adorable, don't you?!?!?! Smile

5 Sep '06 5:57 am

Thank you so much ,Bambi -- I have visited the sites and absolutely love them ..Yes ,I have been puzzling for a long time how to make them - Children visit ,and have no-where to stop and sit down ...I have round wooden treated posts for stems which I was going to paint striped (You can buy striped paint down under !)
But couldn`t think how to make the seat part .I did see some concrete ones but they were over $80 .So I will look around for tree rings I think.
Incidentally ,in the photo of the littlest pixie reaching for the bells ,on the left there is a Begonia growing - It is similar to the Begonia mentioned on another thread -grows over a metre .It looks pretty among ferns.
Dixie.

6 Sep '06 6:06 am

The Blue Fairy - originally bought from a market as a grey concrete ornament , 6 inches high but after a tender coat of paint assumed an individuality and is now up in the tree with a pink fairy and the lime green fairy .For skin tones I mix a tiny amount of red and yellow into white ,and a touch of blue.
Dixie

6 Sep '06 6:31 am

Your new fairies are real cute. You made me think of some pix a friend of mine showed me. It is all right with him if I post them here.

Speaking of fairies and mushrooms, how about this?

Christopher

6 Sep '06 7:00 am

Christopher, I am really sorry for your friend's lawn, although it looks cute...This is a serious illness of the lawn, due to excessive humidity and ups and downs of the tempetature. My lawn has already been infected by this ! When I returned from holidays, there were 5 circles like this! A quite wide part of the lawn, following the circle, can be badly damaged , the lawn completely destroyed.

What can he do? well I just crush all the mushrooms with my boots, and then I sprinkle on them a special powder, antifungi, antimushroom, which I then press on them and all the infected area. By the rain that follows this powder is absorbed by the soil and acts therapeutically and preventively. This same powder is soluble in water and then sprayed on the plants who suffer of black spot, mildew, etc...

Well, I am so sorry for the anti-Fairy news, but I still fight to save my lawn, because this ilness is very difficult to eliminate completely...

6 Sep '06 7:13 am

This is interesting news, Liza. I had no idea the fairy rings were a problem. I told my Deb and she said she knows of the problem as mom has had it before. They dealt with it by digging it out and they had to go quite deep.

News to me. I think they are cool. But they have never been a problem to me. Think

Christopher

Fairy Garden

Dixie's and Christopher's delights!

A little friend

Fairy Garden

Magical Fairy Garden

Fairy mushrooms

Magic Mushrooms

The blue fairy

Fairies and Mushrooms

I am so sorry!

Not mushroom inside