25 Tips On How To Build Fairy Garden In A Pot

Take your gardening to the next level by applying mini landscaping on your pot! Today, we will be looking on how to create fairy garden. Some calls it miniature garden as it’s small yet contains the variety of a garden in it. When you don’t have a huge space for gardening, go for miniature ones! It’s as complex as a real garden but with the effort minimized. Miniature garden or fairy garden typically involves a lot of mini resin decorative or props such as houses, benches, bridges and more. It’s highly customizable to your liking. You can use a pot or multiple pots to create ‘villages’. It’s a pretty fun project to do when you’re stuck at home with huge amount of free time. Now, let’s tackle some elements on what you can do to create the best fairy garden in a pot!

1. Use Smaller Pots To Create Multiple Levels

This is like a small village in a pot! You can have a base pot of any size and shape. It can be a square shaped pot for easy organizing. But, it’s easier to find the round type of planter pots. After deciding on a base pot, get smaller pots. Put those smaller pots inside the base pot. You can also use stones to stack up the height of the small pots.

2. Color The Stones

When you want to create a unique landscape such as a river, you don’t actually have to create a real river in your pot. You can use colored stones or pebbles and arrange the river out. Similar to this idea, you can also create your own paved walk way and other landscaping details to create something that would otherwise be impossible in such a small scale.

3. Make Use Of Broken Pots

Accidents may not be always a bad thing. There’s something called happy accidents. This might just apply to the pot that you’ve recently broken. This broken pot basically reveals a cross section of the pot. This allows us to create a multi-level landscape. Usually 3 tiers is fine. There’s the base with stairs leading up to the next floor and then finally steps up to the top floor where there’s usually more space for other things.

You can put a smaller pot inside a broken pot to take up some space. It also helps in creating a new level! In this fairy garden above we can see that the smaller pot becomes the house of a gnome. There’s stairs leading up to a small house of twigs. There’s also a bunch of other miniature toys such as mushrooms that fills the space perfectly.

4. Hang It On The Wall

It’s very common to place your masterpiece on the floor as how we would with a normal planter pot. But, this is not a typical planter folks! It’s a piece of art! And a piece of art deserves a special place in the spotlight! Put it up at eye-level so everyone can see it.

5. Light It Up With String Lights

String lights make everything looks better! That applies for fairy gardens too! When you already have a miniature garden well designed, enhance its beauty with string lights. You can surround the string light along the fences, that gate arc and on top of that little house. It’s catchy to the eye and definitely makes a good crowd favorite when you have guests coming by. There’s more than just using string lights as fairy garden lights. You can also use LED candles.

6. Choose A Theme For Your Miniature Garden

Pick a theme when making a fairy garden. When you decide to have a village of mushroom houses, stick with that! It’s best to create little props such as bench, swing, fences and ladders using twigs. Using materials from the nature always will make your art look better. But, there are exceptions. There’s all kinds of resin miniature houses out there that looks amazing and we might not have the skills or too time-consuming to make it. Pick the ones that you like and build around it. These mushroom houses are looking nice among these variety of flowers and plants. There’s also other side props that make up the theme such as birdhouses, garden fences and butterfly bench.

7. Have A Point Of Focus

These smaller pots surrounding a larger potted plant in the middle just looks so awesome! It’s different than any miniature garden that you’ve seen because it has a single point of focus which is that tall growing plant. The small house on the side is just the only prop on this garden. There’s also minimal use of other miniature resin props. Just moss and succulents accompany the staging of this centerpiece plant. Adding textures helps too. The brick wall texture gives the pots more aesthetic appearance than just a plain orange surface.

8. Create A Sense of Community

Most people opt for having a single house model on top of their fairy garden. That is the most common choice of many. But, it kinda looks lonely doesn’t it? Why not create a village! Create a community of fairy houses that will make you feel warm and cozy. Build pathways to each other’s place. Have several houses of similar styles and place it on different levels. You can use stones, wood slices or stick ladders as stairs to connect them together.

9. Put Your Childhood Toys To Good Use

How to make a cheap fairy garden? We don’t always have to spend extra to start our very own fairy garden project. Sometimes, that toy box under the bed has just the thing we need to create a wonder miniature garden. Toys like houses, cars, figurines, animal, soldier toys and more can be good props depending on the theme of your garden. There’s finally something cool you can do with these childhood toys instead of donating them away.

10. Use Cacti As One Of Your Choice Of Plants

Why? It’s because they are very durable and easy to take care of. Cactus don’t require much watering. They can store large amounts of water and survive in extremely hot and dry habitats. When making something for show, it’s best to have your plants as durable as possible. It’s best to avoid high maintenance plant as we don’t want our miniature garden be ruined with the sight of wilted plants. Besides, cactus too come with colorful flowers that will add a bit of cheer to your project.

11. Build Your Own Props

The best miniature props you can get is handmade! There’s tons of resin props you can buy out there but they’re often have a variety of styles or sizes that just doesn’t complement each other. That would spoil the view. Making your own prop isn’t necessarily hard. You can use pegs, wooden skewers, twigs, ice cream sticks and anything you have. Create custom fit props that match the size of your pot. That stone pavement won’t be possible to buy outside!

12. Use Colorful Succulents

Other than cacti, there are other succulents that would look great on your pot. Succulents are basically fleshy plant that can store water. They’re easy to take care of and their most prominent feature is their color varieties. There’s a huge range of color such as purple in Perle von Nürnberg, purple heart and purple beauty, reds in campfire plant and dessert cabbage and more. Choose your colors creatively as you design a fairy garden. Colors play a vital role in making a succulent fairy garden pop!

13. Stack It High and Tall

How do you make a fairy garden that catches attention? Make it big! Or in this case, make it tall! Build a complex stack of fairy garden by combining pots and broken pieces together. Start with a wide base and slowly work your way to the top. You can use hot glue gun to secure each pieces firmly. Create that special fairy garden container of your own!

14. Make Plan Layout For Your Enchanted Fairy Garden

Making a fairy garden involves some planning. It’s not about getting some containers and fill it up with random succulents and figurines. Take some time to plan out the succulents and plants to use on each tier. Try to survey the stores for matching prop designs. If you have too much green plants, it’s good to balance it out with colorful props and vice versa.

15. Create Water Feature For Your Miniature Garden

Build a fairy garden with different landscape characteristics such as a water feature! You can use blue colored rocks as presentation for a pond. There’s also an alternative using clear melted plastic that resembles waterfall. Or better yet, use real water! The fairy garden above has a water base pot. A fairy is fishing on the bridge that is made out of popsicle sticks! Even the roof of the house is made of popsicle sticks! You know what’s awesome? You can also keep guppy fishes in there! Guppy fish is one of the world’s most widely distributed tropical fish and one of the most popular freshwater aquarium fish species. They’re easy to breed and have is very resilient. But, that’s a different field. The indoor fairy garden would have looked awesome with the extra water feature already.

16. Build A Bridge

The limit is only your imagination! Go extra! Go big, go huge, go extra. Give your garden an elegant touch! Build those bridges, swimming pool and mountain maybe. This house has an awesome bridge leading to the front door. There’s also tons of greens surrounding the environment. The difference in height of the plant keeps the landscape interesting while not overpowering the point of focus which is that spectacular fairy garden house.

17. Use Woody Textured Planters As Fairy Tree House

Unless you’re doing for something super modern like a concrete jungle, fairy gardens are usually very inclined towards nature. Hence, when you have the wooden textured planters, it would be able to blend into your natural design seamlessly. You can also add windows and doors to it to create your special fairy garden house.

18. Build That Dream Backyard You Always Wanted

Fairy garden isn’t just about building something for the fairies. At times, it’s cool to be building your own dreams too. It can be a miniature garden or model of the yard that you always wanted. When aiming for designs like this, it would usually require more props that can be hard to DIY as everything requires a modernized touch. You’ll need more props like those mini teacups, pier and boats.

19. Choose Greens Of The Proper Size

To make your fairy garden looking convincing, you need to have greens of the right size. If it’s too big then it will look a little unnatural. Tying your fairy garden with plants and props with proportion close to real-life size may be difficult. But, if you can pull it off, the resulting miniature garden is gonna be breathtaking! That arc with the right string light size just looks so convincing! It’s truly what makes a miniature fairy garden comparable to real-life!

20. Make Fairy Garden Tree House

Every child dreams of having their own tree house! Most of us probably lived through adulthood without having the luxury of having one and kinda forget about it as we grow older. But, it’s without doubt a fascinating structure and an impressive thing to have! Fairy garden isn’t just about putting your art on the ground. Bring it up a level! Make it up high! For this project, you will need a plant that is already growing. See how you can make an ideal tree house with it. The ground elements can be the same as any fairy garden. There can be mini pots of succulents, string light and resin mushrooms. As for the tree house, you really need to get creative with the design and material to use. Popsicle sticks and twigs are always a good choice.

21. Play Around With More Lights For Your Fairy Garden

Lights make your fairy garden breath-taking! You could always use the extra indoor lighting. That’s when lighted fairy garden comes in! Other than string light, you can use LED candles. You can place it in the fairy house so that you would see warm lights popping out through the windows. It’s also cool to modify the LED candle into a fire place. Make that special BBQ yard that you dream of! When everything is nice and placed well, you will not only have a lovely fairy garden but also an amazing centerpiece for your living space decoration!

22. Don’t Forget To Decorate The Stairs

If you have a set of stairs leading up to the next floor, don’t forget to furnish it with things like little pebbles, broken pieces of pots, wooden slices or moss covers. Don’t let it be plain and boring! What makes a fairy garden special is in the details!

23. Use Different Fairy Garden Containers

There’s tons of container designs out there that you can choose for your miniature fairy garden project! Take this transparent glass jar as an example. It houses your fairy garden perfectly while having a decent amount of protection. You might need to use clippers to put in the decor pieces one by one but it’s worth the hassle! In a world dominated by fairy gardens in a pot, this glass jar is definitely going to rise to the top!

24. Don’t Cramp Up Your Fairy Garden

One of the challenges in designing your own fairy garden is to use the small space of the container effectively. It takes careful measure to make sure that the props fit nicely. Before placing that bench by the ledge of the pot, think carefully. Would you be comfortable walking across that bushes to sit on it? Despite the fairy garden is all about decor, sometimes, having some real life thoughts to it can make a difference. Make the fairy garden look comfortable and as something that you would enjoy being there if you’re that tiny.

25. Think Outside The Norm For The Setting Of Your Miniature Fairy Garden

It’s a no-brainer that people would think of the natural greens of the forest when they hear the word fairy garden. It’s cool and nice but wouldn’t it be more awesome if we put other areas into the picture? For example, the dessert, the beach and even the mountains! With a variety of plants such as succulents and moss, it is possible to have natural plants that would suit the theme very well! Take the beach side fairy garden above. Only a small part is used as space for the succulents. And, that looks totally awesome!