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And the Winners Are…

The voting for our fairy gardens contest has officially ended, and we have tallied up the voting to determine the winners!

Third place goes to Connie Thompson with this creative little fairy garden in a broken pot.

3rd place winner!

3rd place winner!

Second place goes to Karen Semke with this eclectic fairy garden in a birdbath.

2nd place winner!

2nd place winner!

And first place goes to Naomi Borgenhagen and her daughter Willow with this cute little garden with a teapot house.

1st place winner!

1st place winner!

To claim your prizes, simply head on over to Moraine Gardens where they are waiting for you.

Thanks to all who participated!

Fairy Garden Contest Entries

The deadline for entries has come and gone, and we’ve had a fair number of photos submitted. Now comes the time for voting. You can vote here on this blog post, or you can go over to our Facebook page and vote by liking your favorite fairy garden photo there. To vote here, find the number of your favorite fairy garden by scrolling over the photo; then add a comment on the post with the number of your vote. To get a closer look at these photos, just click on the one you’d like to enlarge. Happy voting!

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Fairy Garden Contest

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It’s time to get out your cameras and brush up on your photography skills. We’re having a fairy garden contest!

Many of you have come in with pictures of your miniature and fairy gardens, and we love seeing all the creativity at play in your designs. In fact, we love it so much that we’ve decided to have a contest in which you can showcase all your fairy gardening skills.

Prizes!

1st place winner will receive Preston’s Place Cottage

2nd place winner will receive a slide and see-saw set

3rd place winner will receive limited edition Ross fairy

Details

You can submit your photos by emailing them to morainegardens@gmail.com or messaging them to our facebook page. In your entry, include a photo of your fairy garden and your name, email, and phone number. You may enter more than one fairy garden, but you may only enter one photo per fairy garden. The deadline for entries is Monday, July 6th. We’ll post all the entries to our facebook page and website by Wednesday, July 8th, at which time voting will begin. Voting will last for one week and will close on Wednesday, July 15th at 11:59pm. Winners will be notified by Friday, July 17th.

How to Vote

To vote on our facebook page, simply like the photo of your favorite fairy garden. On the website, we will post a blog post with all of the pictures, and you can vote by commenting which is your favorite.

So post your pictures, tell your friends about our contest, and recruit them to vote for your fairy garden!

It’s Fairy Garden Time!

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“When are you having another fairy garden workshop?”

This has been perhaps the most popular inquiry ever since our last fairy garden workshop in April. And since we just can’t disappoint all our wonderful customers, we are scheduling two more workshop dates this June.

So mark your calendars for June 9th at 1pm and June 13th at 10am.

You can visit this page for more information and to sign up for our workshops. Make sure to sign up quickly because there’s a limited amount of space in each workshop.

We look forward to seeing you!

Spring Is Here

new varieties of million bells
new geranium
succulent flowers
anemone (windflower)
crazytunia
the perennial house
rhubarb
golden sedum starts
young hostas
salvia
Tango “Velvet” geranium
forget-me-not
streptocarpala
primula
apricot hibiscus
scotch moss
pink hibiscus
bidens
bidens
“Velocity” salvia
cranesbill
diamond frost
double apricot hibiscus
ajuga
wild sweet william
succulent flowers
blue superbells
brachyscome
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primula
creeping phlox
anemone (windflower)
fernleaf peony just starting to emerge
anemone (windflower)
forget-me-not
ageratum
golden sedum starts
agave
creeping phlox

Face Lift

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Every year, when we tell people that we still work, even through the winter months, they invariably ask us, “what do you do during the winter?” We find plenty of ways to keep busy, but one of our main goals during the off season is to do what we can to make our facilities better. This winter, we’ve been giving our store a face lift and preparing a new fairy garden display area. Primarily, that means a lot of painting.

We’re giving the floor a more subdued slate gray covering that coordinates better with the rest of the decor. Our red floor was getting a little tired and needed an overhaul. We’ve also repainted the bathroom, added a purple accent wall to our fairy garden display area and updated some of our wooden trim with a fresh white color. The overall effect is to make the story feel more open and airy, and the space is much brighter and more inviting now.

As you can see, this is not a task for the faint of heart. We’ve had to get creative with our storage options while painting because of our high inventory volume–and new things are coming in all the time. It feels an awful lot like a giant jigsaw puzzle.

Even Lily has volunteered to help–she provides great moral support and reminds us every once in a while that we need to take a break so we can play ball with her.

We’re excited to see the finished product and look forward to being able to show off our renovated store this spring!