Garden Fairies are barely there beings. Slight and delicate ... like moss rose petals and wispy spider webs. Fairies live in all sorts of places and different kinds are drawn to different types of surroundings, so, the kind who live in your well groomed flower bed will be a different sort than the type who live in a meadow.

If you want to attract fairies to your garden, you'll need to make it attractive to them. Place a few clay pots on their sides for shelters. Plant sweet smelling flowers that bloom all season long. It's a good idea to furnish food too. You can put out a small plate of cut fruit everyday or a hummingbird feeder for a special treat.

Now, I can't guarantee you'll get fairies in your garden if you do these things. You may end up with toads, butterflies and humming birds ... but fairies are known to associate with these creatures so don't be so certain that's all you are seeing. Fairies are elusive and are always just out of sight. You have to look for them not so much with your eyes but with your heart. You have to make room in your mind for their existence to inhabit before they will let you approach them.

If you allow the possibility of a fairy's presence in your life, then on some summer's day, early in the morning or late at night, you might hear some small addition to the cricket's song you've never heard before. Or, on a dark night that you've let gather around you as you sat quietly, you might see a tiny shape on top of a flower bud or a shadow move inside a rose ... then you know they are there and you have magic in your life.