Welcome to the Faerie Luna Gardens

The Nursery has opened up yet another Instagram account titled faerielunagardens to showcase what the Faeries have growing in their gardens. So far, during the first few months of living here on Vancouver Island and living with the Little Qualicum Falls Provincial Park backing onto our property line, we have been awed by finding different mushrooms, flowers, plants and trees local in this area.

With this new account we will post photos of our old and new Nursery will all of the splendour that nature has to offer.

A bit about the Nursery:

Created/founded in Fort Smith, NT, located just above the 60th parallel in Canada's north. The weather there can swing from -30C in the winter to +30C in the summer.
Fort Smith has a Dry Continental Subarctic climate with very long harsh winters combined with warm but relatively short summers. With this diverse temperature the environment of this area can be both stark and barren in the cold but lush and green in the heat. Most gardens and flowerbeds are raised as the permafrost stills lingers just meters beneath the surface of the ground but this doesn't stop the Faeries from gardening.

Now the Nursery has relocated Qualicum Beach, BC where the climate is classified as a Warm-Summer Mediterranean climate. Meaning that it has cool, wet winters and relatively dry summers allowing it to be considered to have the mildest climate in Canada. The average temperature during the rainy winter hovers around +1-3C and during the heat of summer it reaches to a balmy +25C.  The area is known for its amazing gardens so I can't wait for spring/summer to get here. With this just being the first week of March (2017), the Faeries have been busy preparing for spring planting as the local markets have already held their 'seed sales' and bedding plants can be found outside of shops ready for sale.

Let us celebrate the wonders of the outdoors ... welcome to the faerielunagardens.......

Teacup Nurseries

Well I attempted my first Teacup Nursery today and there were many lessons learned.

1. Need to learn how to eyeball the amount of floral foam that it takes to fill a teacup!
2. Loose moss goes everywhere!
3. Need things to add to the nursery!

Things I have bought today for the nurseries:

1. More houses.
2. More moss.
3. Railroad moss.
4. Mulberry flowers.
5. Butterflies.
6. Polymer flowers.
7. Polymer faeries.
8. Railroad trees.

These were definitely fun and easy. Definitely need to do a few things differently the next time around that's for sure. The moss needs to be adhered somehow. Thinking that I will pre-glue it onto a piece of regular copy paper that way all the wires for the decorations can easily poke through it. I would like to have different critters then just bunnies but at the moment can't think what else? Can't wait to see the little faeries. Depending on how they look will completely change the look as I will no longer be adding the little houses and it will just be a wee little faerie in a flower garden (technically still a nursery though).

Town Office Shadow Box

Firstly...THANK YOU to Debora for her ideas, vision and help. There is no way that I could have done this without her.

Tomorrow we will be taking down our shadow box to be placed in the town offices' front lobby display area. I was the first one to respond to their 'Call for Artisans' to display your local art work in one of their cabinets. This will be a great opportunity for the Faerie Nursery to have our products shown locally and free of charge for 6 months.

I hope you enjoy the pictures and all of the hard work that went into it. We still have to design a banner to go across the front of it that will say Enchanted Pathways Faerie Nursery - Petal Faerie, Wooden Doors and Trinket Chests.

All of the moss, tree branches and tree mushrooms are local fauna that we have found on our little walks with the puppy dogs. The table is actually a dried mushroom positioned upside down.

We decided that Sapphire would be the best little faerie to represent the Nursery. She not only is the town's new marketing colours but in all of her glitz and glamour she loves to organize all the events that happen in the garden. With her in control you can always be guaranteed that everything is in its place and ready on time. So we are positive that she will take great care of the shadow box while at the town office.

Success!!

The guardians at the faerie nursery today were out and about in the woods today. 

Not only was it a wonderful, sunny spring day but we found faerie pods!! 

Some were pretty disguised in with the local flora and fauna but when you 

know what you are looking they seem a bit easier to find. 

After an hour or so we were able to bring back to nursery about 20 seed pods. 

We will let these pods dry out so the wee little faerie babies have nice new beds. 

We even had help from Fionn (Jack Russell) and Ciaran, both being very helpful on the hunt.