Best Fairy Garden Plants
Choosing The Best Fairy Garden Plants for Your Miniature Gardens
Choosing the best plants for your fairy garden should be mostly determined by the type of environment they will be in. Will your fairy garden be placed in warm sunny conditions or a cold, shady environment?
So I’ve separated these plants into two categories, ones that requires more sun and ones that requires more shade.
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Fairy Garden Plants that will be in Sun:
1. Irish Moss (sagina subulate): A perennial that creates an emerald green carpeting of mossy. Beautiful white flowers bloom in Spring.
2. Dr. Hahnle (Erinus Alpinus): Also known as foxglove, this perennial evergreen alpine plant becomes covered in vibrant pink flowers from spring through summer.
3. Blue Star Creeper (Pratia/Isotoma fluviatilis): Creeping perennial that forms a carpeting of tiny green leaves and starry blue flowers in spring and summer.
4. Rubrifolia (Armeria maritima): Perennial that reaches 4 to 6 inches tall with plink blooms. The plants striking foliage is pale green edged in yellow.
Fairy gardens plants that will be in Shade:
1. Baby’s Tears (Soleirolia soleirolii): Lush, spreading ground cover with dainty green foliage. Plant becomes covered in small white flowers in the summer.
2. Corsican Mint (Mentha requienii): Mat-forming half-inch high aromatic herb with small, bright green foliage that gives a mossy appearance. Delicate purple flowers cover the plant in the summer.
3. Dymondia: Ground-hugging plant with 1-2 inch-long narrow, gray-green leaves resembles silver carpet. Plant features small, daisy-like yellow flowers in summer.
4. Adriatric Bellfower (Campanula garganica “Dickson’s Gold): Low-growing clumping perennial with heart-shaped, lime-green leaves and star shaped blue flowers in summer
These plants were selected from Julie Bawden-Davis and Beverly Turners book Fairy Gardening.