A (First Attempt) at A Permanent Fairy Garden - Gravel Path Bed - December 2024

2024 was the year of cut flowers, but it also was the year of some 'garden personality'.  I included the notion of adding even more 'garden personality' as number 22 on my 2024 to-do list.  To that end, I feel like I added a bit - including the 'feed me' compost bin sign.  I also added - and mostly neglected - a small Stumpery in the back late in 2023.  

There's another bit of 'garden personality' that I added earlier this year that I failed to post about here on the blog.  That "bit" is my first attempt at a more-permanent Fairy Garden using a piece of Norway Maple trunk and a couple pieces of Norway Maple bark to create a little roof. 

I sunk the bottom-half of the trunk into the ground to give it some stability and attached the roof with a couple of decking screws.   I added a little branch 'perch' where the door will go about half-way-up the trunk. 

See below for the first Fairy House built in my new(ish) (more permanent) Fairy Garden:

This area has been taken over by Ostrich Ferns, so one of the tasks for 2025 will be to remove as many of those as I can and think about a shade-loving planting along this bed.  

The bed itself is probably sixteen-feet-long and less than two-feet deep.  But...it CERTAINLY can hold a number of Fairy Garden structures.  I can envision a whole village over here - with homes of varying heights.