商品簡介
Illustrated with color photos throughout, this book is in a square format, 8.5 b y 8.5 inches. Fairy gardens are arranged with living miniature plants and dollhouse sized accessories that enchant the visitor, whether a child or an adult. In this beautifully illustrated book, Betty Earl tells what fairy gardens are and how to make and care for them, relates fairy lore and folklore, introduces the plants associated with fairies, and describes miniature plants for fairy and miniature gardens, indoors or out. There are 103 colorful photographs along with information on building or buying fairy sized accessories for these delightful fantasy gardens.Chapter 1: What is a Fairy Garden? Chapter 2: What or Who are the Fairies? Chapter 3: Creating a Successful Fairy Garden Children and Fairy Gardens Your Own Fairy Garden; Locating Your Outdoor Fairy Garden; Pick a Theme; Fairy Houses; Fairy Doors Chapter 4: Combining and Adding Plants and Accessories; Plants for Outdoor Fairy Gardens; Indoor (Dish) Container Fairy Gardens; Fairy Garden Accessories; Adding Fairies Chapter 5: Gardening with the Fairies; A Sampling of Fairy Legends; Flowers and Plants for Fairy Use; Flowers and Plants Associated with Fairies; Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies Chapter 6: Planting and Maintenance of Fairy Gardens Further Reading, Resources, and Index
作者簡介
Betty Earl is a garden book author, blogger, lecturer, and photographer based in Northern Illinois. Her articles have appeared in American Nurseryman, Midwest Living Magazine, Small Gardens, Backyard Solutions, Old Farmers Almanac, Nature's Garden, Chicagoland Gardening Magazine, and elsewhere. She writes regularly for the Kankakee Daily Journal, and the Diggin' It blog on The Christian Science Monitor. The regional representative for the Garden Conservancy, she gardens on some of the worst clay/road fill “soil” in the state. A plant expert and devoted shopper, she recently authored a book on garden centers of the midwest for Cool Springs Press.
