Premier Landscaping Showcase II Featuring a Fairy Garden
Bring a little bit of magic and whimsy to your garden this season by planting a ‘Fairy Garden’. It may seem out there but there is lore, rules & guidelines on what can and cannot be planted in a ‘Fairy Garden’. One of Premier landscaping of Lakewood’s best customers has an extensive garden with a featured ‘Fairy Garden’. In a recent video landscaper and owner John Gilbride gives us an extensive tour of the property with nearly a thousand plants that features a ‘Fairy Garden’.
The lore of a garden that attracts small magical woodland creatures dates back hundreds of years. In reality though it’s just a bit of fun creating a magical garden out vines, ground cover and amazing flower combinations. That the creator can imagine or tell a story. Centered around magical beings that tend to the garden, much like gnomes, sprites & of course brownies.
Premier Landscaping’s John Gilbride landscaper and owner takes us around a property with a beautiful extensive garden they perform maintenance on year around.
The lore of a ‘Fairy Garden’ has a couple of windy roads coming into fashion in the U.S. in the 1800’s in the Victorian era as a response to small Japanese gardens. Mix in Celtic and German folklore and you have a tradition that goes back hundreds of not thousands of years. The idea of making the edge of the wilderness beautiful and tended to, in order to appease mysterious creatures from another secret world that bring good luck. In that time they would take hope wherever they could get it.
The reason for the garden is simple take care of it and tend to the garden with beautiful flowers and plants that bring nature to life with some added in fairies sized comforts. Fairies enjoy bird baths, pebble homes, anything gold & fresh water. Do this and the Fairies tend to the garden, protect it & bring you happiness as well as good luck.
There are rules though and flowers & plants that the fairies prefer:
Elfin Thyme, foxgloves, columbine, lady’s slipper, tulips, bleeding hearts, Queen Anne’s Lace, poppy pods, lavender, lambs ears, ferns, thistle & milk weed. Sunflowers, lilacs, yarrow, coneflowers, blue bells, cosmos and daisies are some other great flowers and plants.
The fairies do not like iron, nickel as a note and I’m pretty sure they hate litter as a general rule of thumb. But they are completely cool with acorn shells, old walnuts and pine cones.
The great thing about these gardens is that even if you are in the city you can create your own garden there are no size limits because fairies are so small. Through the lore they are able to travel from their world to this one through the little gardens. These types of gardens came into fashion largely because it was a way for city dwellers or those with small spaces a small area to even have a few flowers, plants and minis to create their own little world for a hobby.
The great thing with a large garden like the one in the video is she can create multiple fairy gardens with themes and entire worlds all on one property. It’s also a great way to recycle items in creative ways shiny bowl-shaped items, anything glittery or old pieces of broken mirror can decorate your garden. Just by using things in new creative ways use your imagination it can also be a great way to connect with kids. So, go get started and create your own Fairy Garden today.
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Premier Landscaping Showcase
The perfect family party destination can be right in your backyard. Imagine that crackling fire on July 4th night moving from patio to deck all conveniently lit. The smell of smoke from your barbeque traveling from your kitchen with cocktails ready in the fridge to be served to guests at the bar. Relax with friends around the fire as the fireworks begin. Premier Landscaping of Lakewood president John Gilbride shows us around one of his favorite properties the company has installed. Gilbride starts with a stone patio near the house. Then loops around to a water feature, a fountain, no easy job to put together with a deck that connects the property to an outdoor kitchen. Complete with lighting throughout the property. Gilbride mentions he is going to set the timer. He Walks out to the amazing kitchen with a stainless steel refrigerator & a Twin Eagle grill, to keep you out of the rain a sun dance louvered roof. Gilbride continues to walk the property showing us a decorative wall that was installed to connect the large stone patio sitting area with furniture and a fire pit. This is just one example of what Premier Landscaping of Lakewood is capable of and can create.
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Stone walkways
Stone patio
Deck
Fountain
Outdoor kitchen with roof
Sundance Louvered roof
Decorative Wall
Fire pit