Decorate Garden/ Outdoor. February 15th, 2022

Beautiful indoor fairy gardens pictures and ideas

Find inspiration in best pictures and ideas to make beautiful indoor fairy gardens in miniature gardens with plants and fairies at home.

Spring comes with fresh air, beautiful flowers and fresh plants. Fairy gardens are fun to make and spark creativity. Making beautiful indoor fairy gardens that kids can play with, keeps their fantasy alive. Fairy gardens can be a part of your home decor in living room, entrance, patio or kids play area. Today I am sharing best indoor and outdoor fairy garden with pictures and photos for inspiration. These cute fairy gardens come with easy instructions for construction and tutorials to DIY fairies gardens.

Beautiful indoor fairy garden pictures and ideas

Pictures of Fairy gardens

OVERVIEW:

Here you will find pictures and ideas to make big, small or miniature fairies garden to add whimsical fun to your landscape. A fairy garden comprises of understanding questions like:

Where to display the fairy garden?
What plants to pot in the planter fairy garden?
How to construct fairy garden?
Where to find decorating items for fairy garden?

Questions for Fairy Gardens

WHERE TO DISPLAY THE FAIRY GARDEN?

A lot of planning to make a garden depends on the location of it. You can make a fairy garden in any planter, pot or area. Once, the area has been selected you can easily choose the type of plants, decorations and planter.

WHAT PLANTS TO POT IN THE PLANTER FAIRY GARDEN?

There are two main things that helps decide on the plants for fairy garden. The flower pot and the location. If your planter has drainage holes you can plant any plants based on the sunlight exposure. Best plants for fairy gardens are actually those you find best. However, some low maintenance plants that can survive little attention, water and sunlight include:

pothos
succulents
air plants
cacti
evergreens
rubber plant
snake plant
spider plant
polka dot plant
Ivy

HOW TO CONSTRUCT FAIRY GARDEN?

Making a fairy garden is very simple. Once you have made your selection, it’s all about decorating and planting flowers. To help assist with this process we have photos shared below.

WHERE TO FIND DECORATING ITEMS FOR FAIRY GARDENS?

You can find unique and interesting items for fairy gardens in many places. Some of my favorite places include:

Michaels
Homesense
Thrift stores
Dollar stores
Local nurseries
Home Depot

Popular Fairy Garden Decor Ideas

DIY fairy garden accessories can also be made using polymer clay or craft supplies from dollarama or natural items. It is fun to keep making things and adding to the fairy garden just like a dollhouse. It keeps you involved creatively and have a hobby to work on in leisure hours.

Beautiful Indoor Fairy Gardens

A fun idea would be to make solar fairy house in a miniature garden. Now let’s look at these DIY fairy garden ideas and photos to help you make your own fairy garden:

1. How To Make Beautiful Fairy Garden?

Use pots of assorted sizes to make layered indoor fairy garden.

2. Build a fairy garden with kids

Some ideas for material to create fairy house with your child:

Leaves, grass and moss
Flowers, acorns, rocks
Tiny animals
Miniature birdbath
Seashells
Windchimes
Small pieces of wood, baskets
Hot glue gun and glue sticks
Extension cords (if building outside)
Wood glue
Polymer model clay or air dry clay
Twine (for swings or clotheslines)
Fake fur or fabric scraps
Small dollhouse items
Tiny rustic furniture
White wood picket fence
A set of toadstools
Fairy garden furniture
Potting soil
Small plants for fairy garden

Material needed for fairy gardens

3. DIY Fairy Door Planter

Turn a terra cotta pot into a fairy garden door.

Use stones and pebbles and glue them onto the flower pot.
With clay shape a door and use a pin for details. With acrylic paints complete the garden door.
Add moss and other mini decorations to complete the look.

4. Front porch urn fairy garden

Turn your front porch urn into fairy garden bird bath. This pot is multi-functional. It adds decoration to your front porch as well as helps our tiny friends stay hydrated. You can also add a bird feeder or butterfly feeder. You may also like DIY urn for less tutorial.

5. Easy DIY Fairy Home

Easy DIY fairy garden made with shallow terra cotta planter, rosemary plants, Alyssum plants, potting soil and fairy figurines.

Fairy garden supplies and things

6. Guestroom Fairy Garden Lantern

Turn a lantern into a fairy guest house using moss, fake flowers and decorative accents. I love the painted Welcome rock. Such a cute idea.

7. Make Fairy Garden with evergreen tree

I love this idea because it uses the fairies home I choose for mine. Another thought that just passed my mind is to create a custom sized planter box and decorate it with your imagination. It would also be interesting to add a birdhouse to the scene.

8. Make an indoor fairy garden with pots and trays

Make a city of fairy garden whether indoor or outdoor using different sized plant stands and planter trays. Here are some ideas you can find in this image:

Use twigs to make stairs for fairies.
Fabric pennants and twine makes a cute clothesline.
Moss can cover the green area and pebbles can make a path for the garden.
Natural elements like jute, birch, wood slices and twigs can make swings, post and even a hammock for the fairy house.
Add a picnic mat made with clay food items.
A teacup can make a cute room for fairy home too.

Small fairy garden gift idea

9. Teacup fairy garden

This cute little teacup sitting place for fairy makes beautiful homemade gift for garden lovers as well.

10. Fairy garden basket

Make Fairy Garden Basket with succulents, mushrooms, wood slices, moss and seasonal flowers planted in a container. You might also like DIY boxes made under five dollars.

Are Fairy gardens for indoor or outdoor?

11. Constructing epic fairy garden

And my most favorite of the entire list is this epic fairy garden that has left me speechless. Make a greenhouse in a three foot square sunny corner. The fairy house includes:

Lake and waterfall
Junk store bought birdhouse
Weathered cedar piece dome
Fence with Popsicle sticks
Sliced wood placemat as floor
Fairy garden houses and accessories from local nurseries
Fairy garden gourd house from amazon
Polymer clay decorations
Dried hydrangea as tree
Stalagmite mountain loom
Golden cord and green twine hanging chandelier
Galvanized washtubs
Acorns
Gravel
Fairy village woodland table with four stools
Cart and bottles from local fairy garden shop
Beads and colored stones
Scrapbook paper in blue for water
Hummingbird figurine
Thatched roof cottage
Galvanized wheelbarrow
Clay farmland where fairies grow vegetables (carrots, cabbage, onions and potatoes)
Hanging basket with quilled paper flowers

12. Miniature terrarium fairy garden

Turn a fishbowl into a fairy garden terrarium with succulents, gardening charcoal, potting mix, stones, pebbles, large round glass fish bowl and fairy miniature ornaments. Add gnomes to bring luck to your garden and read all about DIY gnomes and their origin at the link. You might also like this fishbowl snow globe.

Best plants for miniature gardens

13. Best plants for fairy gardens

Here’s a Guide to Miniature plants for fairy gardens at empress of dirt. Find best outdoor plants for fairy garden on the link. The top 10 indoor trees and bedding plants you can use in your fairy gardens or indoor mini gardens:

English Boxwood
False Cypress
Parlor Palm
Norfolk Pine
Ellwood’s Blue Cypress
Dwarf Mondo Grass
Baby Tears
Corsican Mint
Sugar Vine
Zebra Haworthia

14. Barrel Fairy garden

Fairy Garden Makeover using a barrel. Have you ever considered making bug hotel for ecosystem outdoors? For this barrel the following material is used: