How to Build a Succulent Fairy Garden

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Succulents are some of my very favorite plants for fairy gardens (indoor and outdoors). I found a wheelbarrow planter at the hardware store earlier this summer, and I KNEW it would make the perfect succulent fairy garden. I almost never buy planters NEW, because honestly, they’re the kind of thing you can find all over second hand – garage sales, thrift stores and on FB market place, for example. But this one was just really cute, and I needed it for my succulent fairy garden, so I splurged, haha. (This wheelbarrow planter on Amazon is very similar!)

Preparing Your Planter for Succulents

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Choosing and Planting Your Succulents

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– Jade – the larger, flat-leafed plant – A second variety of Jade – or maybe a variety of Euphorbias (the larger tree thing with long finger leaves) – Sedum plants – the lower growing ground cover stuff (3 varieties) – Sempervivum – easily recognizable, we call them hen+chicks

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Adding the Fairy Garden Accessories

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It’s hard to tell in this picture, but the 2nd large flat rock (the one the house is NOT on in the picture above) isn’t very level. There was really NO place on this rock for the fairies to have anything going on. No chairs with tea, no playground, no garden… it was really frustrating. Clearly there wasn’t enough room for the fairies to exist, so I added another rock.

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