Fairy House

Inspired by this, spotted a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned I would build a fairy house to hide in one of the slash piles up the back of the garden.  Slash piles are part of the 'wilderness zone' that is more contrived than wild but is aimed at supporting as much wildlife as a small garden can handle.

The process started by stripping some bark off a log. It came off in two large pieces so my design went rather more mansion than the originally intended small cottage.

Holes in the bark suggested windows. A small collection of broken glass and shells; there is always junk (treasure) lying about my gardens, a plain marble in a small knot hole, snail shell door handle, a bit of sea glass from a nearby beach for a window in the door.....

It eventually got cobbled together, mounted on a frame to hold it up, installed - first with a mossy board roof, and later 'thatched' with some hay from the heath. 

What these photos don't show is that I've started work on a small 'garden' with more shells, interesting flints with holes (fairy hag stones),  a tiny slate path....

It will be just my luck the local cats knock it all to pieces negotiating the hole in the fence above the slash pile it rests under, before the grandchildren 'discover' it.

Maybe I will follow up with the originally intended cottage or two, a transformed old boot and a couple of converted flower pots to create a village hidden about the 'wild zone'.....