Hi...I am a new member from Minnesota. I love perennial gardening, even with our short season. I have just restarted gardening after some health issues and am reclaiming a rather large rock garden from the over-growing weeds. I am going to make it into a fairy garden.....I figured that I needed a little whimsy and fantasy to make this challenging project a lot of fun and one that my grandchildren can participate in helping me with. I have already found several items at thrift stores to use as "fairy houses". It's really unbelievable how much fun I have had already just doing that! Some things are perfect as is...ceramic "house" canisters and cookie jars, and even a candle holder, plus some great "themed" bird houses that I'm really excited about. But, most of all, my friend says that I have a wonderful imagination when I find the most unlikely things and then describe to her what I will do with them to convert them to " fairy homes". Pinterest has been wonderful for ideas! People that I know, have been wonderful, too, donating building materials to me, like huge pine cones that can be dismantled to provide shingles for the roof, birch bark, twine, dried moss, etc...as well as a few neat branches with crooks that will be wonderful for building fairy treehouses in. Well....I have "talked" long enough. If you have any great " fairy garden" ideas.....or ideas of plants that I can use.....hopefully some winter hardy perennials for zone 4 or is it 4b now? .....let me know. I will try to post pictures as the project moves along, so I can share the wonderment that a little fantasy can provide.
I'd love to see some photos - pine cone roofs sound very fiddly!
