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The winners for our Spring/Summer Fairy Garden Competition have been revealed and the winners have been informed. Thank you to everyone who entered. Our judging panel had great difficulty deciding the winning entries as there were so many great gardens with very different qualities. However, they were able to select the three winners, which were revealed yesterday on Facebook. Watch the video below to see the winning gardens. The judges selected a magical hidden garden by Jacob, Elijah and family as the first place winners. The panel were specifically impressed by their use of nature and space. Second place went...

I firmly believe that children should learn and enjoy gardening. It's great as well for them to have a go at growing their own food. As this week is 'National Gardening Week' I thought it was a good time to show you how another part of my garden is coming on. As well as flowers did you know fairies love a bit of home grown produce. They are quite willing to share, so I have decided to try and grow some produce ideal for salads and to add flavour to other dishes. Chard is quite easy to grow, it is...

Another brilliant story from community blogger Jenny. Read her first story Life of Puppy here. ___________ Once there was a fairy called Miss Boot. Miss Boot loved all things yellow. She lived in a yellow house, she had a yellow garden and she grew yellow flowers all around her little house. She loved Yellow like the Sunshine. Her neighbour Mrs W. Can loved all things blue. She lived in a blue house, with a blue garden and wild blue flowers surrounded her home. She loved blue like the Sky. The fairies often chatted over their garden fence trying to convince...

Every generation in my family has been working on their gardens during this lockdown. I recently told you what I've been up to and I shared a photo of my great-nephew in his garden. Now I'd like to share a fantastic project from my grown-up daughter. Here is her blog entry she sent me. When I bought my house the fist thing I noticed about my garden was as you climb the steps to get out there, there was a rockery section built into the wall. It was always my plan when the Summer came around to plant some pretty flowers...

View this post on Instagram Read the story behind this #fairygarden rockery in our community blog at findingfairies.co.uk #fairygardenideas #lovefairies #lovegardening A post shared by Finding Fairies (@findingfairiesuk) on Apr 11, 2020 at 3:24pm PDT   When I decided to start work on my garden a couple of weeks ago I knew one of the biggest tasks would be getting my rockery back to its former glory. I absolutely love it and it's a key part of my fairy garden. I first made it in 2018 and some of the painted stones could do with a fresh coat and a...