Specialty Gardening: Fairy Gardens 2008, 1 by bluespiral

bluespiral wrote:
This is such a great thread that PrimroseSue has started. There are some old fashioned flowers and plants that just drip with ancient fairy magic, and so many ways to interpret this theme with flowers and garden designs - I hope I'm not viewed as hi-jacking the thread, because this is a subject long dear to my heart.

Well, toadstools are certainly one of these plants. Here's an interpretation of a fairy ring that captures the spirit of a ring without easily identifiable plants, but still suggests many ways to express a ring with plants, besides toadstools (although there are said to be 2 species of fungus in Maryland that are said to glow in the dark) -

HughesEdward Robert_MidsummerEve_Wikipedia_1908
source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Edward_Robert_Hug...
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