How to Design a Miniature Country Garden

Fairy gardens can be whimsical, lighthearted, medieval, and forested while having all manner of interesting themes. Have you ever considered a miniature country garden? If you are from a rural area, think back to the vegetable garden your family may have cultivated in addition to crops in industrial quantities or massive numbers of livestock. Recall memories of a pastoral garden with vegetables, fruit trees, miscellaneous tools, wheelbarrows, and even old toys. A garden on the farm has a certain charm that cannot be found anywhere else. It calls to mind images of scarecrows, back porches, fresh air, and harvest time. Do you want to put together your own miniature garden in a country style? Read on to get our design tips and tricks!

First Steps towards Creating a Country Fairy Garden

Begin by incorporating greenery into the design, perhaps hemmed in by a picket fence or rustic wooden posts. For diverse and simple solutions, check out available miniature plants, where you will find a variety of trees, shrubs, flowers, succulents, and greenery sized for your sun or shade fairy garden.

Whether you are constructing your small-scaled garden in the yard or a container, you will want to consider hardscape materials or ground cover. In a mystical fairy garden, you might be more likely to incorporate shiny stones or green grasses. However, a country garden can benefit from exposed soil, as well as Fairy Mulch. This mulch has a rustic, agricultural look that will bring to mind tractors, fields, and the countryside.

Fairy Houses with a Country Style

A country garden located in the American Midwest is nothing without a humble farmhouse with classic, whitewashed, clapboard siding and wooden shakes. A large and inviting porch will greet fairies after walking up the steps to the farmhouse. This style of a country fairy garden has been popular for many generations. Another country design to consider for fairy houses is the English countryside style. A stone foundation, wooden door, painted shutters, and thatched roof are all signs of a proper country home for a miniature fairy garden. Bristol House, Country Cottage, and Cotswold Cottage are examples of country houses that still pack in all the tiny details you love, such as flower boxes, a front stoop, and chimneys. Fairy houses in the country garden do not have to be substantial. In fact, a collection of small houses might be ideal if you are hoping to make a village or fairyhood in the backyard garden as the main feature.

Miniature Garden Accessories

Sometimes the accessories are the components that truly bring a miniature garden to life. For the country flair, there are resin and metal vegetables, like garden cabbages and the tall corn pick that are easily "planted" out behind the fairy houses and cared for with the help of a garden watering can. Once picked, a wooden vegetable crate is a sensible home for harvested goodies, which looks particularly smart when positioned on a picnic table or bench. Consider adding a clothesline to the backyard to embrace that down-home charm. Country gardens can have all sorts of fun, weather-minded details as well, like a windmill or metal weather vane. Finally, a pair of old boots next to the door gives a country fairy garden a friendly home-style touch.

A miniature country garden strikes a delicate balance between looking "put-together" and "comfortably lived-in," which makes for a finished product that is satisfying to view and visit. Find pleasure with incorporating weathered wood, tiny garden tools leaned carelessly against a fence or wooden signs that have been knocked askew by garden rabbits into your design. That is just life in the country garden! Once you make the country-themed miniature garden your own, the garden fairies, trolls, gnomes, and pixies will never want to leave.