No blog last week as the weather was awful and I did not get outside, but a major improvement and lots of lovely sunshine this week!

So time to have a go filling up the broken pot, first  I put a piece of pot over the drainage hole and then added some compost, I tried fitting in the large broken piece from the side but could not get it to stay. So finally broke off (with large hammer) some of the excess pot from under the two rim pieces so that I could layer them up and these stayed in place better. Once in place I started adding the steps with the pieces I made last time, the steps ran into the edge of the rim pieces so I removed them and with the hammer tapped away at the edge to make a gap so the fairies had somewhere to go at the top of the steps!

I then filled it with more soil and buried a piece of pot to stop the soil from falling back out, then added a piece of the first broken pot to make a further layer for planting

I then used pieces of alpine plants that I had split from others around the garden to plant up the fairy garden.

Finally I added some fine gravel, some homemade stepping stones and a homemade bench to make the garden complete!

Unfortunately it doesn’t look anything like I had imagined and nothing like the lovely ones I have seen on the net but I guess it’s ok for a first attempt and especially as the more of the pot than I wanted came away. It was  definitely more tricky than I thought, so good luck if you’re going to have a go!

Jackie 🙂