GIVING IT ANOTHER TRY

I found this delicate fuschia at my garden center.

They need the perfect combo of sun & shade,

but not a hot sun,

so summer will be tricky.

This will be my 5th try to keep one alive.

I'm hoping this corner will be the perfect spot,

since my fragile Fairy Garden seems to be thriving here.

I scooted the Fairy Garden over and put the Fuschia in its spot.

This is a shady corner at my home/studio on the patio of the 2nd floor.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Meanwhile the Fairy Garden is going to town. 

The lone red Impatient I stuck in there last summer is flourishing,

and made it thru the fall Santa Ana winds. 

What didn't make it in the winds was the gorgeous Coleus I planted last summer.

The stem is still left so I'm hoping it might come back.

A TINY DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE

Walking by Alumni Josh Berger's Succulent garden today I saw this itsy bitsy surprise.

The String of Pearls had bloomed.

These tiny flowers reminded me a bit of cacti blooms,

only even better like something you might see in a fairy garden.

The very small clay head was a piece left behind years ago.

Of course I saved it and now has found a perfect home as a garden sculpture.

TRIM JOB

For Mother's Day 2016,

my son drove me all over tarnation to find the perfect supplies

 to build my own Fairy Garden. 

 If you click on that link you can see it in it's early stages.

Since that time it has morphed into this unrecognizable planter below.

The good news is that it loves it's location,

the bad news is...

well I guess there isn't any other then I can't find my fairy or her home anymore.

So this weekend I gave her a trim and there she be with her birds,

 pumpkin and clay tepee (used to be a roof over a porcelain birdhouse that broke,

but I couldn't bare to throw it away.

I think tonight I'll put up a closer view so you can see her better.

I guess it's still a bit overgrown,

but it's happy.

They Grow So Fast...

Our 2 cuties, J.V. and Kenzie, are both little fishes in the water this summer.  Look Grandma Debbie, no floaties.  And they know all about the vegetables, herbs, and fruit trees that their mommy has growing in their garden along with all the bugs too!  I get the most wonderful tour when we drop by for a visit.  Plus we get to go home with magnificent zucchinis and rich red tomatoes.

Kenzie starts pre-school this fall, and she loves horses, and J.V. has grown at least a foot this year and he has started golf lessons.

Pop-pop and I can't wait to take them out on the course.  And the tooth fairy came to get J.V.'s front tooth the other night.  J.V. pulled it out himself!

NEW ADDITIONS

Spent Memorial Day with my son and his girl

and they took me to Green Thumb in Canoga Park, 

one of the largest nurseries I've ever been to.

Get this, 

the nursery has an entire room dedicated to Fairy Gardens,

so I was in Heaven.

:)

The little doo-dahs inside are expensive so I only bought a few items.

I added that stone bridge,

and a little rock on the left with birds perched a top.

I also bought a pound of really lovely pebbles

and made a few pathways.

This little garden is growing so quickly 

that I've already had to trim some of the foliage back.

But I enjoy peeking at it when I get home from school everyday.

It really relaxes me.