POSTED BY KIM — Happy Halloween everyone! It’s a great day because the sun is shining and I will be nice and dry as I try to keep up with the kids tonight as we trick-or-treat.
Here are some pics of my very scary fairy garden. It doesn’t look that different from last year — I [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Fairy gardening’
October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween
April 12, 2009
The fairies were here
POSTED BY KIM — I know it’s Easter, but my eyes tell me the fairies have visited, not the Easter bunny. Just look at these little abodes! A new shipment of fairy doors has arrived with more styles than before. The fairy carpenters really outdid themselves.
Click on the images below to see them [...]
April 11, 2009
Now showing: Veronica ped. ‘Georgia Blue’
POSTED BY KIM — One of the few plants in my garden that’s in full bloom right now is the groundcover, Veronica peduncularis ‘Georgia Blue.’
It’s hard to find a true blue in the plant world. A few that come to mind — Mertensia virginica Virginia bluebells, Ceratostigma plumbaginoides Perennial plumbago, and this little beauty.
It stays [...]
March 29, 2009
Housing Market Offers Affordable Homes at Unbelievable Prices
POSTED BY PEGGY: Affordable housing can be found everywhere these days: Florida, Las Vegas and even Sugar Creek Gardens.
Fairys, elves, trolls and even toads in need of a new home, have a wide selection of floor plans to choose from.
Starter homes are available as low as $9.99. Medium size abodes are selling in the $17.99 to $$19.99. Deluxe models [...]
March 19, 2009
Tina gets creative with container gardening presentation at Missouri Botanical Gardens
POSTED BY KIM — Sugar Creek’s own Tina Paletta gave a one-hour presentation on container gardening this morning to more than 140 people at the Missouri Botanical Garden. Go Tina!
Following is a copy of her handout, which has great advice for assembling a container with year-round interest.
Choose Your Plant Materials
Exposure – Will the container be in [...]
December 8, 2008
A fairy garden on steroids
POSTED BY KIM — I’m on a fairy gardening roll! And it just keeps coming. The kids and I went to the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Gardenland Express display, which is a room full of tiny winter villages, people, cars, etc., including tiny mountains (that’s like “jumbo shrimp”!), a moving ski lift, skiers racing down a ski slope, ice [...]
December 2, 2008
Tina’s tiny winter fairy gardens
POSTED BY KIM — I love when Tina works, because the gift shop is always more beautiful by the time she’s finished. I went into work the other day and found these adorable fairy gardens all done up for the holidays, thanks to Tina’s magic touch. I was so inspired I’m going to decorate mine at home, [...]
November 24, 2008
A tiny homage to Thanksgiving
POSTED BY KIM — I’m ready to decorate my fairy garden for Christmas, but before I pull out all the stops, I’ve done a small Thanksgiving display.
It was fun to take out all the summer stuff, trim back my plumbago, put in a new tree and freshen up my stones.
October 1, 2008
A tiny Halloween in the fairy garden
POSTED BY KIM — My children have a fairy garden. My daughter is 7, and my son is 9. I’ll admit, it’s probably more *my* fairy garden then theirs, but let’s keep up the pretense.
The joy of fairy gardening must harken back to playing with dolls. There’s just something so enticing about it! You should hear us [...]
