Monday, July 18, 2011

Building Fairy houses


My eldest daughter was inspired by our newly acquired "Fairy Houses Everywhere" book to produce her own fairy house out of natural materials. It's a welcome new addition to the fairy garden and was a beautiful peaceful activity to end the holidays with. I made fairy houses with all the preps at our local school and it was a huge hit, with boys and girls alike - delighting in making their own fairy teepees and decorating them.  The images of fairy houses on the web are incredible, there is a place on the Maine coast that has a forest filled with little fairy houses and they even have their own 3 day fairy house festival

our fairy letterbox

Our two year old is obsessed with fairy dresses at the moment, this is a home made hand me down from our lovely neighbours.  She has decided to add some flourishes to the house.



The Long-leaf Waxflower (Philotheca myoporoides) has a beautiful fruity scent

We went hunting for winter flowers for the fairy garden.  Found Clematis aristata

Primulas

Hollyhocks
Love in the Mist - not as blue as its summer flower
snow drops
violets

winter roses

an unseasonal rose

daisies

weedy yet pretty oxalis
the first of the camelias




 Lavatera seeds
 Grevillea - these are currently visited daily by Eastern Spinebill birds

 Alyogyne huegelii Native Hibiscus is about to burst into a profusion of purple flowers
 Correas

 Penstimen
 Forget me nots are waiting to do their thing
 Giant hydrangea

smelling and investigating lemon scented verbena

violas

and a pansy



The male and female Superb Fairy Wrens added to a joyful day.

4 comments:

  1. Oh, this is SO sweet. I don't know that my boys would be keen on fairy houses, but we do make forts. Does that count? Not so pretty...

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  2. Your little fairy house is beautiful. What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. Your two year old is exercising impressive restraint. Ours would probably find it all a bit too tempting.

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  3. Oh my! What prettiness abounds here. My daughter would be transfixed. What lovely moments you've captured - bravo! I'm rewinding, too. J x

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  4. You know what I'm doing tomorrow, don't you! x

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In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
Margaret Atwood

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbour:
"Winter is dead.”
― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young