Making a Grand Entrance to your Fairy Garden

When I am working on my newest miniature garden projects, I try to take ideas from the world around me as well as the Internet. I am fortunate in my life to be surrounded by creative and unique friends, as well as family members, who expose me to diverse perspectives. I can visualize uncommon containers to use for mini fairy gardens, because of these people in my life. A dear friend inherited an antique suitcase from her grandmother. Creatively she used this container to plant and accessorize a fairy gypsy garden that decorated her apartment balcony.

Everyone has that neighbor whose life-size, family garden looks like it was featured in a magazine. Every time you walk by their house, they are weeding, planting, or updating their well loved and well cared for outdoor space. I recently met a woman, who meets this description, in my neighborhood. She took me on a tour and offered to uproot perennials, so I could replant them in my garden. While walking through her yard, she told me stories of inheriting plants from other neighbors, transplanting plants that did not do well in certain parts of her yard, and successfully buying plants from shops on the Internet.

The interesting thing about these grand neighborhood gardens is that they are always marked by a large arbor, white picket fence, or lattice covered with green ivy at their entrance. It is an idea mostly overlooked by miniature gardeners who are used to looking at their gardens from a bird's eye view. However, if you think about your fairy garden from the perspective of the fairies who roam within it, you do not want to skimp on the detail of a large grand entrance to your miniature garden space that is so characteristic of any beautiful garden we have seen in real life.

When planning a fairy garden, I have personally favored the look of arbors covered with a Creeping Fig or Fairy Vine, creating a shadowing entrance that leads to a fairy house. This creates the feeling as though the entrance is a portal that is transporting the flower fairies to a different world. When the little ones cross the threshold into these well aged, overgrown, and partially wild spaces it causes them to wonder how long it took to grow that way and how many others have wandered through these gardens collecting their own inspiration from similar garden designs.

The next time you are looking for inspiration to design and plant a miniature fairy garden, remember to check out life-size gardens in your neighborhood for ideas and search social media sites for designs that are easy to scale down. While on your mission for ideas, study the grand entrances that make an impact on the tranquil looks of the fairy garden.

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