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Welcome to my Fairy garden! On this page you will find all sorts of information to attract fairies to your garden!!
Attracting Faeries To Your
Garden
Create a garden that is conductive to all
life. Put up birdhouses, birdbaths and bird feeders, bat houses and hummingbird
feeders.
Plant flowers and plants that are attractive
to bees and butterflies. Faeries are attracted to any place where
there are butterflies. Put nuts out for the squirrels.
Whatever you do to bring life to your garden
will bring faeries as well.
Here is a short list of plants that attract
beautiful butterflies and faeries to your garden:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Aster novi-belgii (New York aster)
Chrysanthemum maximum (shasta daisy)
Coreopsis grandiflora/verticillata (coreopsis)
Agastache occidentalis (western giant hyssop or horsemint)
Lavendula dentata (French lavender)
Rosemarinus officinalis (rosemary)
Thymus (thyme)
Buddleia alternifolia (fountain butterfly bush)
Buddleia davidii (orange-eye butterfly bush, summer lilac)
Potentilla fruitiosa (shrubby cinquefoil)
Petunia hybrida (common garden petunia)
Verbena (verbenas, vervains)
Scabiosa caucasica (pincushion flowers)
Cosmos bipinnatus (cosmos)
Zinnia elegans (common zinnia)
Install a small fountain or waterfall or put
in a fishpond. You might want to include statues of faeries.
Anything that reflects light or is colourful and moving particularly attracts the gnomes
and elves. Both faeries and water sprites like the splashy sound and sight of a fountain.
Leave an area of your garden a bit wild and
not too cultivated. Faeries. It need not be a large space, but having one area that is
dedicated to the faeries will make them feel very welcome.
Ask faeries and elves to come to your garden.
"Where Intention goes, energy flows." Whatever you place your conscious
awareness on, you will pull into your life. As you put your attention on faeries and
gnomes and the elemental realm, they will respond by being drawn into your garden.
Plant a night garden to attract nocturnal creatures such as bats, owls and crickets. For a night
garden, alba or white flowers are used because their iridescent colour will stand out in
the twilight and evening darkness. Include noctiflora, flowers that bloom only at night.
Especially helpful in a night garden are flowers that have a strong sweet smell
particularly at night, such as Nicotiana affinism, tobacco plant, Mirabilis
jalapa, four o'clock flowers, Hesperis matronalis (alba variety available)
or dame's violet or sweet rocket.
Faeries and Lunar
Correspondence
| January |
Wolf Moon |
gnomes, brownies |
| February |
Ice Moon |
house faeries, both of the home itself and of house plants |
| March |
Storm Moon |
Mer-people, Air and Water beings who are connected with spring
rains and storms |
| April |
Growing Moon |
plant faeries |
| May |
Hare Moon |
faeries, elves |
| June |
Mead Moon |
sylphs, zephyrs |
| July |
Hay Moon |
hobgoblins (small, grotesque but friendly brownie-type
creatures), faeries of harvested crops |
| August |
Corn Moon |
dryads |
| September |
Harvest Moon |
trooping faeries |
| October |
Blood Moon |
frost faeries, plant faeries |
| November |
Snow Moon |
subterranean faeries |
| December |
Cold Moon |
snow faeries, storm faeries, winter tree faeries |
| Variable |
Blue Moon |
banshees and other beings who carry messages between worlds |
BLUEBELL
Constancy and Kindness
Bluebells are also known as wood hyacinths, and as Cuckoo's Boots, Crowtoes and
Endymion (after the woodland lover of Diana, the goddess of hunting). The Scottish
name for the plant is Deadman's Bells, for to hear the ring of a bluebell is to hear one's
death knell. Fairies are summoned to their midnight revels by the ringing of these tiny
flowers, which are reported to be the most potent of all fairy flora. Legend has it that
children who venture into bluebell glades will be held captive, while adults will be pixie-
led, until met by another mortal and led out.
CLOVER
Thoughtfulness
Because fairies do not like to be seen by humans, they disappear in the blink of an eye,
but some people believe that a four-leafed clover may prevent this and allow a mortal
to see fairies in their invisible state. A four-leafed clover is famous for bringing luck
and it gives a person the power to break fairy spells and see through their magic.
FORGET-ME-NOT
Love and Devotion
Fairy flowers may be divided into those that belong to them
and those that give people
protection from them. Forget-me-nots are one of the latter group and like the cowlisp
have power to unlock secret treasures, often supposed to be guarded by fairies or spirits.
The delicate forget-me-not has been the emblem of love and remembrance. It symbolizes
devotion when two are separated.
JASMINE
Affection and Elegance
The jasmine is a symbol of beauty in China and a sacred plant of India and Persia--
Hindus call it the Moonlight of the Grove. The white jasmine is sometimes known as
the Star of Divine Hope and is often associated with the purity of the Virgin Mary
in Christianity. While the white jasmine is believed to symbolize deep affection, yellow
represents grace and elegance. According to folklore for one to dream of jasmine means that
a romance is blossoming.
TOADSTOOL
Magic and Temptation
Countless folk tales and songs link fairies with toadstools whose sudden appearance and
rapid growth have always intrigued people -- seemingly caused by some inexplicable,
supernatural force. Their unearthly shapes and colors (sometimes quite luminous) and
their often hallucinogenic properties are thought to be a sure sign that they are creations
of fairies! The Fairy Ring Mushroom is the one which grows in a circular formation,
marking the boundary of the faires' favourite dancing places. The enchanting timbre of
fairies' music and revelry can lure mortal passers-by inexorably into the ring for what
may seem like minutes but is actually years, sometimes even forever!
WHITE LOTUS
Purity
The white lotus flower was sacred in ancient Egypt, India, China and Tibet and is still
regarded as a symbol of purity in those countries. In medieval Germany peasants believed
that lotus flowers were nymphs in diguise and ladies would carry the flower in their hand
to counteract the effects of love potions.
The above information is copyrighted to Blue Pixie (With Permission)
If you would like to read more, please visit her site ~The Faerie Realm~
 
 
Art by Meilin Wong
Graphics by CC's Graphics2000
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