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September 4, 2015 By Brandy 4 Comments

Home » Craft Tutorials » Kids Crafts

Cactus Fairy Garden For Dry Climates

Filed Under: Craft Tutorials, Home & Garden Projects, Kids Crafts Tagged With: Kids Gardening

A cactus fairy garden is perfect for summer! It requires very little water, is easy to take care of, and brightens your porch all summer long!  Thank you, Scotts®, for sponsoring our creativity.

A cactus fairy garden is perfect for summer! It requires very little water, is easy to take care of, and brightens your porch all summer long!
Cactus Fairy Garden
I honestly can’t remember the last time we had a good rainstorm here in Northern California. Maybe sometime during the spring?? Occasionally we’ll have 90 seconds of sprinkling as a few clouds make their way through the valley, but it has been a very dry few years here. Our lakes are at surprising low levels and water restrictions have been placed on many residents.

The girls and I made a darling fairy garden in the spring and it lasted a couple of months, but with the super high temps and lack of rain, it wasn’t easy to keep it watered! Cue the cactus fairy garden—perfect for summer.

A cactus fairy garden is perfect for summer! It requires very little water, is easy to take care of, and brightens your porch all summer long!
We decided to replant our little garden and picked out some bright and colorful succulents and cactus plants. The girls have been wanting those little red and orange cactus pots FOREVER. They always ask for them when we walk through the garden section at the home improvement stores so they were thrilled that I finally said, “Yes!”

Cactus Fairy Garden

A cactus fairy garden is perfect for summer! It requires very little water, is easy to take care of, and brightens your porch all summer long!
We broke up the very dry potting soil that was left over from our previous garden and filled the pot with our new plants.

 

A cactus fairy garden is perfect for summer! It requires very little water, is easy to take care of, and brightens your porch all summer long!
We added  a layer of small pebbles and gave it a good watering. It’s on the porch so that it isn’t in full sun. I guess we’ll see how it goes, but I like the fact that these hardy little plants don’t need to be watered every few days.

A cactus fairy garden is perfect for summer! It requires very little water, is easy to take care of, and brightens your porch all summer long!
Here are more gardening projects for spring and summer!

Popsicle Garden Markers

Eggshell Seed Starters

Fairytale Fairy Garden

Mini Flower Gardens

California is suffering from one of the worse droughts in history and the governor has mandated a 25% water reduction. After spending so much money on a beautiful sod lawn a few years ago we really want to keep it alive during this drought and conserve water. That’s the balancing act and it’s all about moderation.

With the ground being so dry and hard, it seems like the water just kind of runs off instead of thoroughly being absorbed. I honestly think it is all about making each drop of water count. I knew it would only be a matter of time before one of the gardening companies came up with something to help with this. We recently got a package of Scotts® EveryDrop™ .

When added to lawns or gardens, EveryDrop™ can help water spread out and sink into the soil, allowing more water to reach the roots – where it is needed most – and hydrate the plants–saving up to 25% in water.

Ideally, we would use this at the beginning of spring and continue to apply to our growing areas throughout the summer and early. Since it just became available at Lowe’s, Home Depot, and Orchard Hardware September 1st, we will apply it this month and continue in the spring. I hope we see results soon!

 

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  1. Crochet Hooks says

    May 25, 2016 at 1:13 pm

    this would be great on my front porch since i forget to water the plants out there 🙂 thanks for sharing the diy!

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    • Brandy says

      May 25, 2016 at 1:41 pm

      Haha, you and me both! Keeping my container gardens watered enough is a challenge! 🙂

      Reply
  2. Anita says

    May 25, 2016 at 6:51 pm

    This is so pretty! I want to make one!

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  3. Pili Gomez says

    May 28, 2016 at 12:24 am

    I think I need that soil too because I forget to water my plants… all the time! Your fairy garden turned out really pretty!

    I would love to invite you sharing this too in our Sweet Inspiration party http://sweethings.net/sweet-inspiration-link-party-8/

    Enjoy the weekend!!

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