Ready For Fairy Gardening In October?

This time of year people, who enjoy miniature fairy gardening, start thinking about the holidays and all the tasks they need to accomplish before the end of the year. One of the first activities most of us start with is getting our outside space prepped for the upcoming cooler weather. At my home that means pruning out old wood or removing damaged limbs from shrubs and trees, cleaning leaves from my veggie garden, and managing my landscape miniature gardens. It also means adding bone meal to the fairy garden perennial beds and after the first hard frost applying fertilizer. In addition, I try to think of ideas to transition my fairy garden from summer to fall.

What I like to do is take my existing “summer themed” fairy gardens and put an autumn or Halloween themed twist onto them. I always like reusing existing fairy accessories, plants, and containers that I already have. I usually move my plants into a fall themed container – I like to use something like a barrel or crate, with a shallow plastic pot inside of them, to dress up my front porch or the deck off the back of my house. I will reuse any fairies or fairy accessories that relate to the October (seasons changing) theme.

An old favorite trick of mine is actually using a small pumpkin or gourd as the temporary fairy house. After I cut the top (with the stem) off the pumpkin and clean out the inside, I carve windows and doors into the gourd. Next, I flip the pumpkin upside down, so the bottom is the roof and sometimes I even use a battery-powered tea candle inside of the house to cast rays of light. It gives my fairy garden pumpkin a fun and festive theme that plays on the fall time of the year, and can last through Thanksgiving as a unique way to decorate the front porch. The final step would be decorating my miniature garden with fairy accessories that actually apply to October. There are signs that say “Welcome to Autumn” as well as “Happy Halloween” signs. Other ideas for fairy gardening accessories are placing corn picks in the background along with hanging lanterns, or adding small bales of hay, crows, and miniature pumpkins to the container.

Depending on your style, you can do something more playful and silly with scarecrows, potted mums, and cauldrons. On the other hand, you can lean toward a more elegant design with a bistro set consisting of an all-black table surrounded by chairs. Add a few black spooky accessories expressing a more haunted house environment. In warmer climates, plant ‘Platt’s Black Brass Buttons’ and the ‘Cobweb Hen and Chicks’ in a black container. I know that I greatly enjoy both styles – so pick the theme that best interests you. Who doesn’t love this time of year? I know that when the temperatures start cooling off, I get so excited to decorate and have my friends over for crafting fairy gardens and carving pumpkin parties.

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