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| | From:  Fae_Kay (Original Message) | Sent: 2/16/2008 1:26 AM |
Attracting Faeries To Your Garden
Create a garden that is conductive to all life. Put up birdhouses, birdbaths
and bird feeders, bat houses and hummingbird feeders.
Plant flowers and plants that are attractive to bees and butterflies.
Faeries are attracted to any place where there are butterflies. Put nuts out
for the squirrels.
Whatever you do to bring life to your garden will bring faeries as well.
Here is a short list of plants that attract beautiful butterflies and
faeries to your garden:
Achillea millefolium (common yarrow)
Aster novi-belgii (New York aster)
Chrysanthemum maximum (shasta daisy)
Coreopsis grandiflora/verticillata (coreopsis)
Agastache occidentalis (western giant hyssop or horsemint)
Lavendula dentata (French lavender)
Rosemarinus officinalis (rosemary)
Thymus (thyme)
Buddleia alternifolia (fountain butterfly bush)
Buddleia davidii (orange-eye butterfly bush, summer lilac)
Potentilla fruitiosa (shrubby cinquefoil)
Petunia hybrida (common garden petunia)
Verbena (verbenas, vervains)
Scabiosa caucasica (pincushion flowers)
Cosmos bipinnatus (cosmos)
Zinnia elegans (common zinnia)
Install a small fountain or waterfall or put in a fishpond. You might want
to include statues of faeries. Anything that reflects light or is colourful
and moving particularly attracts the gnomes and elves. Both faeries and
water sprites like the splashy sound and sight of a fountain.
Leave an area of your garden a bit wild and not too cultivated for the
faeries. It need not be a large space, but having one area that is dedicated
to the faeries will make them feel very welcome.
Ask faeries and elves to come to your garden. "Where Intention goes, energy
flows." Whatever you place your conscious awareness on, you will pull into
your life. As you put your attention on faeries and gnomes and the elemental
realm, they will respond by being drawn into your garden.
Garden fairies are very active throughout the growing season. There are
many ways to attract them. Two excellent ways are soft music, or leaving
bits of good bread and cheese out for them. An even better way to attract
them is to plant a fairy garden with plants that have been found down
through the centuries to be favoured by the Wee folk. Plant your garden
carefully, tend to it lovingly, and call out, welcoming and inviting the
fairies in. Soon, you may see on a moonlit summer's eve, especially on
mid-summer's eve, a group of laughing and merry fairies dancing around in a
fairy circle in your garden. Make them some tiny frosted cakes, set out
some milk and soon they'll reward you with a garden you won't believe!
Faeries often dance in circles in the grass which are called faerie rings.
The wild enchantment of the faerie music can lead passersby inexorably
twords the ring which, like a faerie kiss or faerie food and drink, can lead
to captivity forever in the world of Faerie. If a human steps into the ring
he is compelled to join the faeries in their wild prancing. The dance might
seem to last only minutes, or an hour or two, or even a whole night but in
fact the normal duration would be seven years by our time and sometimes
longer. The captive can be rescued by a friend who, with others holding his
coat-tails, follows the faerie music, reaches into the ring (keeping one
foot firmly outside) and pulls the dancer out.
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I have a fairie door that my husband has put in the base of a tree for me and i offer gifts everyday to make life a little for them. i have also found some great hints on here to help also thankyou kim |
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