Fairy Garden Handbook

by Liza Gardner Walsh

Overview

The popularity of fairies and fairy houses has soared, as has the growing movement to get children interested in outdoor activities such as gardening. This new how-to book for parents and kids combines the best of both worlds. It includes basic information for beginning gardeners, such as soil preparation, planting, and watering, then branches into appropriate categories for every fairy gardener:
•making miniature gardens and terrariums that are just the right size for fairy friends
•butterfly and hummingbird gardens to attract these flying friends of fairies
•rock gardens
•water gardens
•wind chimes and prisms to add music and light to your gardens

Sprinkled throughout are bits of fairy lore and garden wisdom. Written for children, or anyone with a child’s heart, and filled with color photographs, the Fairy Garden Handbook will turn curious kids into green thumbs in no time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608932153
Publisher:	Down East Books
Publication date:	02/08/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	20 MB
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About the Author

Liza Gardner Walsh is a children's librarian in Rockport, Maine. She has worked as high school English teacher, a writing tutor, a museum educator, and holds an MFA in writing from Vermont College. Through all these adventures, she has made tiny houses for fairies, trolls, mice, snails, and other small creatures. She lives in Camden, Maine with her two daughters, Phoebe and Daphne, and her husband Jeff.

Table of Contents

Introduction 9

1 Getting Started 13

Sun

Soil

Food

Water

Tools

2 Container Fairy Gardens 21

Containers

Plants

Planting and Hardscaping

Accessories

An Interview with Kerri Day

3 Outdoor Fairy Gardens 37

Plants

Flowers with a Fairy Purpose

Flowers for Fairy Potions and Protection

Accessories

4 Garden Projects 49

Butterfly Gardens

Birds in the Garden

Scent Gardens

Garden Forts

Music and Light

5 Fairy Garden Tea Party 61

Invitations

Planning

Menus

Activities

6 Indoor Projects 69

Indoor Fairy Gardens

Pressed Flowers

Bulbs

Pocket Plots

7 How to Know if Fairies Have Visited Your Garden 75

Further Reading 79

Resources 81

Acknowledgements 83