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| celebrate2727 |
Posted - Jul 26 2006 : 09:51:51 AM
I had posted a little note on my blog about how much I have enjoyed gardening this year
I have never enjoyed gardening more in my life than I
do this year. Even the mosquitoes don't seem to bother me as much.
Maybe it isn't that it is growing as much as it is what is growing. For you see I am growing plants from seeds of love. These tiny seeds that I received from friends this year, seeds I planted as our friendships began and I am watching them blossom and grow everyday. When I sit quietly in my garden and weed and tend it I feel their presence with me.
These women, farmgirls, friends.
So here is a Frannie Flower I grew
And Frannie here is a start to my faerie garden
blessings
beth
Dreaming of Friday Night Lights
http://bethsblissnblossomfarm.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 27 2006 : 3:04:39 PM
beth the sunflowers are wonderful!!!! mine have just started blossoming .. i planted late this year because of all the late spring/early summer travelling ... will send pics soon. i must have planted a ba-jillion sunflower seeds .. but have only about a dozen or so that are actually growing .. i doooo believe the BIRDIES had their fill!!!!
i'll save more from this crop for planting next year too! would be fun to do a 'seed swap' if we haven't already gurlfrenz!
a fairie garden is as wonderful and varied as your individual imaginations .. i believe my most favorite i have ever seen were built by children who came to my 'flower fairie tea parties'. we had a big huge tree in the middle of our yard .. with another huge tree just at the edge of the forest ... the 'forest' tree had a huge HOLLOW in it ... which is where our maryland home got it's name (named by a FOUR-YEAR old friend) ... CROOKED TREE HOLLOW.
i purchased a few small plants/flowers (with roots attached .. and re-planted them in tiny pots) ... i provided each child with a 'basket' .. then we took a 'nature hike' in the woods by our home .. where the children gathered .. lichen, twigs, bark, woodland flowers, pebbles, stones, and any other nature treasures they could find. then we returned to the big 'fairie tree' .. where they would 'circle' the tree with their baskets of goodies .. each child was provided a small live plant too. they would create fairie homes .. with kitchens, living rooms, dining rooms, FURNITURE .. little 'food' items, porches, patios, gardens rugs, roofs .. you name it and those children thought of it! i swear .. the fairie villages they created could have been featured in any major gardening magazine!!! (they each planted their small plant somewhere in the fairie garden). oh .. and i also gifted them each a little plant to take home to start their own fairie garden.
AND .. when i had hidden little fairies under ferns .. in rock out-croppings .. among little wood piles, etc. peeking out at us as we walked quietly together through the woods. (they were told to 'look for the fairies' .. but do not reveal their hiding places .. or even 'talk' to them .. as this would make them run into hiding because they are very shy of humans .. but curious about us too!)
after the villages were built, we all circled the tree .. holding hands .. and singing fairie songs and danced around the tree.
i told the children that the 'fairies' are 'memory keepers' and that they watched us as we had our tea party and fun events and that when all the children were gone home .. they would fly back to the hollow in the olde crooked tree and stay up all night excitedly telling each other all they had seen and observed.
then i tell the children that SOMEDAY .. when they are grown and perhaps sitting with a friend who had come to the party with them as a child .. or maybe even telling their own children of their memories of this lovely day and of building fairie homes .. that they would probably feel a teeeeeeensy little tickle on the side of their cheek or at the edge of their ear .. and if they turned their head very quickly .. they might catch sight of a tiny little fairie .. and that these fairies have returned to them in their adulthood to 'whisper memories' of their childhood in their ear.
and as we danced around the fairie village .. i would sprinkle each of them with 'magic fairie dust' (silver sprinkles) and recite a poem i had written ...
STAR dust of SILVER
MOONBEAMS of GOLD
spun by the FAIRIE FOLK
from stories often told.
They live the in the HOLLOW
of and OLDE CROOKED TREE
... for the 'stardust of memories'
is MAGIC .. you see!!
Remember .. fairie gardens and sightings and parties are what YOU conjure up to share with the children (and grown-up gurlfrenz too!) in your life!
OH .. once, i invited several dozen gurlfrenz to attend a 'fairie fest' at our home. They were all to come dressed as fairies ... we, too, gathered goodies and built a lovely fairie village .. and OH MY ... the COSTUMES were just delightful! We even had a couple 'dark fairies' who came dressed all in black.
I must tell you how i believe this fairie fest was MEANT to be!!!! In our dollclub we had a lovely young woman who's 2 year old son had been battling lukemia for over a yeara of his sweet little life. She had not attended doll club gathwerings in several months as she did not leave his bedside as his conditioned worsened and she was told that he would go to live with the angels before long.
Brave little Brady lost his dear little life .. and our party had been planned for about two weeks following his death. And to all our surprize .. his mom showed up in a white flowing gossamer gown .. with lovely net wings filled with sparkles (silver fairie dust) .. and her eyes were rimmed with silver dust in the midst of her beautiful pale face.
she ... truly looked to be an angel-fairie. we all embraced her and she told us this gathering had been a healing that she very much needed. knowing that our love for her and her precious son was as deep as friendship could possibly be.
fairie gardens ... oh my yes .. do find some lovely tiny 'twig' or 'metal' furniture .. check your local dollar stores for those dear little fairies that can withstand all weather .. find or make a 'bird-house' type fairie home and nestle it in among the flowers or ferns. make little pebble walkways .. and of course, a 'tiny fence and garden'.
and best of all .. include 'the children' in creating your fairie garden.
xoxo, frannie
p.s. i do hope that all you fairie-lovers get to read this story .. soooo .. i will also post that part in a new thread under the garden thread. i wish you fairie dreams!
True Friends, Frannie
CABIN CREEK FARM
KENTUCKY
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| celebrate2727 |
Posted - Jul 27 2006 : 06:14:22 AM
Jo- i would love to give you pointers on how to build your own faerie garden but I will allow Miz Frannie herself enlighten you. So Frannie when you get on the computer please tell us again of your crooked hollow tree and the glorious faerie song.
blessings
beth
Dreaming of Friday Night Lights
http://blissnblossomfarm.etsy.com
http://bethsblissnblossomfarm.blogspot.com
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| Lavender Cottage |
Posted - Jul 27 2006 : 06:01:13 AM
Beth-I love it-the Frannie flower and your little fairie garden-how cute! I started my fairie garden this year too, but I hadn't even thought of adding small furniture. I am very pleased with all my gardens this year too as many of the flowers have also come from friends and family over the years so those are special. I have been working hard to bring them back around. The weeds and rubble had kindof taken over the last few summers, but now I'm winning the battle and it is such a joy isn't it! :)
Ellen in MI |
| Hideaway Farmgirl |
Posted - Jul 27 2006 : 05:47:46 AM
What a wonderful idea, Beth. Pray tell, what is/how do you create a faerie garden? I'm intrigued!
Jo |
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