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Fairy Garden :: Peach Blossom Cottage

July 30, 2014 | 4 Comments

Fairy Garden Ideas

When scouting a space to allow the magic of a Fairy Garden to weave itself together here in our new little cottage grounds, there really was only one suitable place – protected with the fruit trees in our enclosed orchard amongst the food gardens here on our island home. Our property abounds with wallabies, possums and one rarely spotted – but resident all the same, echidna. And while all of these animals we are sure would love to frolic with our resident Fairies, they’d also like to nibble greedily on their garden plantings, leaving nothing but stumps within a few hours. Within the orchard rows was a little corrugated iron tub. Standing low enough for little arms to reach in – but high enough to prevent fuzzy little burrowing bandicoots from pottering amongst the roots. So there in the community of Apple Grove, right by the only peach tree in our orchard – ‘Peach Blossom Cottage’ was named by a little girl and born with great love, excitement, imagination and wonderment.

Fairy Garden Ideas

Fairy Garden Ideas

Fairy Garden Ideas

Whilst watching the countless hours, conversations and festivities my children have shared there at ‘Peach Blossom Cottage’, amongst the Gardens and with the Fairies – perhaps my very favourite part of this experience was watching Chilli and Papa one Sunday become totally absorbed together in the magic of dreaming up, creating and bringing to life little pieces of hand made necessities and furniture for the Fairies Cottage and Garden spaces. The bonding, the giggles, the helping each other and the joy in bringing these pieces to life in the home there at ‘Peach Blossom Cottage’ was truly heartwarming to watch. I loved their ingenuity in including natural native Australian treasures such as gumnuts for lamp posts and a dotta vine jumble wrapped around a fallen branch of melaleuca for an arbour. Papa remarked afterward at how impressed he was with Chilli’s creativity, as apparently most creations – including the walnut shell larder shelves – were her dreamed up inventions.

Fairy Garden Ideas

Fairy Garden Ideas

Fairy Garden Ideas

Fairy Garden Ideas

Friends have visited and shared adventures with the Fairies, brother and sister have tended this little home lovingly through the changing seasons – playing happily together in only that magical childhood space that children exist. The Easter Hare visited and parents, grandparents, godparents as well as  family friends have witnessed silently this wonderment that is the magic of Fairyland play amongst sweet, happy, inspiring young children.

Fairy Garden Ideas

Fairy Garden Ideas

Through the past year as ‘Peach Blossom Cottage and Gardens’ have been birthed, tended, cared for, loved and grown, I have delighted in the many little random Fairy Gardens I find built -here, there and everywhere. Groves in bowls for the Mermaids, Circles of Rainbows for the Leprechauns to visit and tiny little nooks on every part of our property that become spontaneous places to offer tiny delights for the Fairies. As I walk past ‘Peach Blossom Cottage and Gardens’, I always enjoy to stop, be marvelled by and smile at the sweet little creations that have sprung up through my children’s play; acorn tea cups filled with pansy pudding, a clothes line pegged with leaf towels and beds made snuggly soft by petals of sweetly scented rose blooms. I love to see where the bike has been ‘ridden’ to, who has ‘stopped in for tea’ that day and which little folk are currently ‘at the park’. It is always interesting to see what the ‘larder’ has been ‘stocked with’ as well. These are the things that make for wonderful childhood memories, and these are the moments that I will look back on fondly with a warmth in my soul when they’re both off living their own adult lives one day and have flown this tiny little family nest of ours. Hopefully they’ll always carry the magic of these early years in their hearts.

Fairy Garden Ideas

I invite you now to come on a little journey through the Gardens at ‘Peach Blossom Cottage’…
(Please click the first thumbnail below to enable the slider with image captions, telling the story of our Garden)

Welcome to 'Peach Blossom Cottage'
Where magic abounds
And imaginations run wild
Brother and Sister bond
Tiny bells tinkle
Amongst masses of blossoms
Party lights are strung
And garden lanterns flicker
Meet 'Elfin' - the man of the Gardens
And 'Lavi' the Lady of the Gardens
There's birds that visit regularly to sip from the sweet bird bath waters
Father and Daughter come together creating Fairy Garden furniture
Gumnut lamp posts
A cobblestone path
Leading to the Cottage larder
A basin in the larder
A park 'round the side
Blueberry leaves to be collected for towels and bedding
A tea party is being set
Delicious treats are created
By Brother and Sister in their kitchen
The guests are arriving
And the feast is presented
So many hours
Of magical fairy garden play
Deeply absorbed in Fairyland stories
All dressed for the Fairy Garden Ball
Magical seeds delivered from Jack
Bringing some of the magic inside
There's a sweet little hollow at our home
Peach Blossom Cottage and Gardens

Are there magical tiny folk that live in your garden? I’d love to know if you’ve written about the adventures in your wonder filled Fairy Garden.

The Magic Onions Fairy Garden Competition

This post has been written to not only share the story of our All Season Fairy Garden Adventures with you, but also as submission to The Magic Onions 2014 Fairy Garden Contest. To Donni and her gorgeous family as well as the community of supporters bringing this opportunity to life – we thank you for inspiring great wonderment through this encouraging of Fairy Garden creations the world over.

Filed Under: Garden, Homeschooling Tagged With: building a fairy garden, fairy garden, fairy garden ideas, fairy garden inspiration, the magic onions fairy garden competition

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In a little cottage on the side of a hill in Southern Tasmania is where the song of this story is sung. Once a place where sheep grazed, this home is now a retreat for pademelons, bandicoots, echidnas, and our family. Originally from the East Coast of New South Wales we traded hectic highways for a calmer, more meaningful pace of life.
I'm Elke and together with my husband Graham - we strive to live conscious, grounded and joyful lives as we share the privilege of walking along a parenting path with our two precious children; Chilli and Marlin.

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