Fairies in the Garden

Its going to be a little difficult to describe concerning fairies.

I did ask few of my gardener's friends on what you think about them.

To a certain degree - I did get raised eyebrows and a look that sounds like - 

"What! You believe in fairies??"

Guess its a guy thing not to fall for these mumbo-jumbo factor.

Well, I guess - I didn't continue with that conversation or leading to any explanation.

You can't go so far in any explanation when you hear a person says that they don't believe in the existence of fairies.

OK - Let me rephrase:

I don't go after fairies like the one who chases butterfly with a net and all.

I wouldn't say that I'm neutral about it - that whether they exist or not doesn't trouble me.

What I'm getting at is that :- 

IF there is an unseen creature as just as fairies.

And that they do exist and

IF they exist and make a dwelling place in your garden.

How would your reaction be?

- Would you continue to garden as you would usually do - regardless or

Would you change your perception concerning your garden.

I wonder if you would had watched any of the fairy themed movies - like Peter Pan, Thumbelina or Tinkerbell. There are lot more of these mystical creature based movies coming out very popular even the Box Office like Harry Porter and The Spiderwick Chronicles
And a lot more which I really can't recall much.

OK - leave out the entertainment industry - what about Garden Ornaments?
Even those who buy them will consider them as cute figurine regardless of their existence.

To me personally - I can sense fairies.
I understand that they are assigned to take care of nature.
They are nature spirit and to some extend there are some order and a complicated hierarchy involved in who does what. I'm really not sure of their detailed issues - what I know is that when they are present in a garden - the garden will certainly look beautiful and healthy.

Perhaps they do & work better in the unseen world.

And in the matter of the unseen world there is a host of things and issues that we really don't know or care about. Strange as it may seemed - the old folks and the native people somehow had lots of stories and legend concerning them. Its a pity that this treasure is slowly getting lost and faded away.

And to a certain extent the touch of a gardener hands is slowly replaced with an industrial, bland, uniformity.

A lot of garden now replaced with a landscape ideology which do not have a magic touch.

It just too boring and plain "dead"

An arrangement of line-up palm trees with ixora's in between is not a garden. 

But that is what it happening now.

And soon when the place appears to have weeds and grass growing in between  the collection - 

its truly a sore eye.

That's when you know - that there is no fairy taking care of this place.

I had heard countless true stories where the same similar issue is been always brought up.
Somewhere in the forest a tree cannot be fell - somehow an unseen force at work either make the worker sick or the vehicle unable to operate or the tools seemed not working.
So much so the work had to be abandon or a compromise/leverage had to be made.

Cases where people go missing in a jungle even in an island. Somehow they cannot see or feel so lost.
And often there is a mystical connection concerning these issues that they are not accurately studied or addressed.

A lot of folktales and old wife tales influenced from these realms.
Few I often remember - Do not garden in the night. Don't plant these plants in front of your house.
And yes the most famous one - Do not pluck flowers in the night...

So yes - its going to be hard believing in the existences of fairies.

(not to equate with the believe that you must adhere in these fairy tales - folklore rules - I certainly don't)

But somehow - that you rely very much on your senses.

Somehow - coming from the depth of your senses - you somehow learn to trust your instincts.

That there is some strange feeling that gives you a warning sign not to go near there, or to that tree, or that pond and your heart beats twice the fast if you brace yourself against your senses.

And true enough you found that a viper is coiled so invisible by the tree, or its too late by then when you find that your foot is resting on a vicious ant nest or being near a pond - getting your footwear all muddy and soaking wet (you thought it was dry ground)

Yes - when you are so seasoned with these situation in the garden.

Somehow the sense is so acute that you know something is wrong in the garden.

(That someone had plucked flowers or stuff without your knowledge (and you suddenly checking the scene of the crime) or that you seek and found a plant is almost dying because it got knocked over, or a flower is about to bloom - and you just noticed it when the plant it placed in a hidden, un-obvious place)

And you always arrive to the scene in the garden at the right precise moment to handle and correction the situation before it is too late.

As I said - it is going to be difficult to explain about a lot of things.

What I want to say is that - I had found that magic is real in my garden.

There is this good feeling that comes when a flower blooms or 

see the Caladium leaves with different spots of reds in the their leaves.

Or See a Sunbird come and drink nectar from the flowers

or watching the flutters of the bees and the butterflies.

What is your magic in your garden?

How do you say it: The source of the Enchantment?

Do you have a fairy in your garden?

Do you care to share your story?

There is a nice document on : Fairy Faith also

Click here for a nice fairy dance song. Enjoy.