Faerie Nice

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.
— Roald Dahl, 'The Minpins'.

Faeries, come, take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame!
— William Butler Yeats, "The Land of Heart's Desire," 1894

Fairies are invisible and inaudible like angels but their magic sparkles in nature.
— Lynn Holland.

When I first thought about doing a post about faerie gardens, I intended to use my daughter’s as an example. She has a wonderful side garden with crocus and tulips and grape hyacinths, and has faeries and gnomes and mushroom houses scattered throughout it.

However, I was told the best time to take a picture was a dusk when the solar powered mushrooms lit up. Which would have been a great idea if I could have found the time at dusk, but I didn’t. And meanwhile, the flowers finished blooming and it’s not quite as enchanting as it was. *sigh*

So the granddaughter and I decided to do our own faerie garden in a container on my front porch. And when I say “we” I mean that she told me what things to put where and I did all the work. Which is why there are three glow in dark butterflies in there. LOL

At some point (soon, I hope) I’m going to swap out the stones for the little pathway with smaller ones. The big ones were the only ones I could find in the stores, but I have a gnome habitat in the house that has smaller stones and I think they’d look better.

Then we put the leftover plants in the pond garden, and even without gnomes and faeries I think it looks like a place where you might find them.

And then I took a little closer look in the garden, and discovered a variety of mushrooms growing along the edge of the pond.

You can almost picture the faeries hiding in there, can’t you?

How about you? Have you got a home for the faeries?