GIVING IT ANOTHER TRY

I found this delicate fuschia at my garden center.

They need the perfect combo of sun & shade,

but not a hot sun,

so summer will be tricky.

This will be my 5th try to keep one alive.

I'm hoping this corner will be the perfect spot,

since my fragile Fairy Garden seems to be thriving here.

I scooted the Fairy Garden over and put the Fuschia in its spot.

This is a shady corner at my home/studio on the patio of the 2nd floor.

Keeping my fingers crossed.

Meanwhile the Fairy Garden is going to town. 

The lone red Impatient I stuck in there last summer is flourishing,

and made it thru the fall Santa Ana winds. 

What didn't make it in the winds was the gorgeous Coleus I planted last summer.

The stem is still left so I'm hoping it might come back.

TRIM JOB

For Mother's Day 2016,

my son drove me all over tarnation to find the perfect supplies

 to build my own Fairy Garden. 

 If you click on that link you can see it in it's early stages.

Since that time it has morphed into this unrecognizable planter below.

The good news is that it loves it's location,

the bad news is...

well I guess there isn't any other then I can't find my fairy or her home anymore.

So this weekend I gave her a trim and there she be with her birds,

 pumpkin and clay tepee (used to be a roof over a porcelain birdhouse that broke,

but I couldn't bare to throw it away.

I think tonight I'll put up a closer view so you can see her better.

I guess it's still a bit overgrown,

but it's happy.

NEW ADDITIONS

Spent Memorial Day with my son and his girl

and they took me to Green Thumb in Canoga Park, 

one of the largest nurseries I've ever been to.

Get this, 

the nursery has an entire room dedicated to Fairy Gardens,

so I was in Heaven.

:)

The little doo-dahs inside are expensive so I only bought a few items.

I added that stone bridge,

and a little rock on the left with birds perched a top.

I also bought a pound of really lovely pebbles

and made a few pathways.

This little garden is growing so quickly 

that I've already had to trim some of the foliage back.

But I enjoy peeking at it when I get home from school everyday.

It really relaxes me.

ROOTS & WINGS

Collecting Plants & Making Fairy Gardens...

and adding Succulents to the patio wall.

Buying Tropical Plants with super cool flowers 

at the most spectacular nursery along the Newport Coast,

one of my favorite places in the whole world.

And collecting seashells at the sea shore in Corona Del Mar...

with my beautiful boy last weekend.

Then receiving a glorious orchid bouquet the next weekend...

with brunch down in Laguna Beach

and a pit stop to see the Rescued Seals.

A visit to a new yarn store,

and time made to place flowers on my mother' grave...

with my incredibly thoughtful and patient daugther.

A mother couldn't feel more loved or cherished.

Thank you Zach and Danielle for always coming back to the nest that I built for you,

for taking time out of your hectic & crazy lives to spend these days with me.

What a special treat from the both of you.

I couldn't ask for more wonderful children.

Everyday with the two of you in my life has been a blessing and a joy.