The Lady Pearl

A pearl is a unique gift from another living thing. The Oyster, while living in the bottom of the ocean takes a grain of sand and creates something very beautiful. I think pearls are enchanting.

Pearl is the name of the enchanting fairy who takes great bride and joy from planning all of the entertaining in the garden. I call her "Lady Pearl" because she is graceful and she has the etiquette of a fine English Lady. She organizes and hosts the "Garden Tea Party". She plans picnics and other outdoor events. She will let me know a long ways in advance "mark my calendar, company is coming"!

Pearl loves company or out of town guests. I think she secretly would like to own and operate a Bed and Breakfast some day. When guests arrive Pearl likes to have the everything ready. She wants the silver polished and the china sparkling clean. The cloth napkins are all folded to her liking and waiting in a basket. She will have me wash and iron numerous table cloths. Flowers, flowers, flowers! Everywhere there are vases of flowers gathered from the gardens. She has a trick of used wide bottomed containers like vintage cookie jars. This allows for very large flower arrangements that will not tip over.

Pearl likes to "WOW" her guest with food too. She will carefully plan a menu ahead of time. Everything is taken care down to the last detail. The day before guests arrive the kitchen is busy making many delicious baked goods. "Make the plan, work the plan" she says with a smile. Pearl will keep things running smoothly and she looks elegant doing it too!

The Fairy Camp is a Busy Place

   

Entrance to the Camp of the Seven Fairies 

      Take a peek inside Camp Seven Fairies. There is so much to see. The pictures are only small bits and pieces of the camp site. This is my biggest fairy garden and certainly the most fun to build.


DIY Sign - Break a plate. Use a Dremel tool with a sanding bit and sand off the sharp edges. Place the plate in a plastic bag when breaking to avoid small pieces flying. Use a diamond bit to drill holes. Marking pens for ceramics are used to write with. A bent twig and string and you have created an entrance sign to your fairy garden!

The Council Ring for the 

Sisterhood of the Seven Gypsy Fairies of Garden Harmony

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Meetings every new moon.

Camp view of the "Wishing Tree". The fairies hang bottles of fairy dust on it and nap in the tea cup swings.

One of seven home sites at the camp.

    

A bench to rest on.

The camp garden.

If you find the path near the fenced camp garden,  it leads to the fairy kitchen.

The camp kitchen.

The hidden powder room.

Fairy Garden Number "3"

This was a perfect day! The weather was delightful. Our stately large Oak tree kept the yard very comfortable.  I began working on the fairy camp or fairy garden #3 in my landscape.

Back in early April we removed many large older shrubs. We have learned not to cut the shrubs to the ground before digging up the stumps. Leaving 2' or 3' from the base allows for leverage when trying to move and remove stumps during the digging.  As usual, I saw potential! I quickly dragged the stumps off and hid them.

Last week I tried to remove as much of the soil as possible with my trowel. I used the hose sprayer to remove the rest of the dirt that remained.

The clean stumps sat for a few days and dried nicely. I thought they were perfect for the fairy garden. I planted them in a 4' by 15' garden along the side fence line toward the back of the garden. Some I planted upside down. This will allow me to elevate fairy houses and also give me places to hang the hammocks I am building. One of the shrubs will be filled with tea cup swings.