No.29 Flower Fairies

The little girl came from a family of gardeners. Her parents loved to garden. All four of her grandparents loved to garden. The little girl’s grandfathers both enjoyed growing a variety of vegetables and both had greenhouses to grow tomatoes and peppers. One of the little girl’s grandmothers had a beautiful formal rose garden with bright coloured blooms and a manicured lawn. The little girl’s other grandmother had an informal cottage style garden with hundreds of different flowers of various sizes, shapes, and colours.

This grandmother seemed to know the names of every flower, every plant, and every tree. The little girl felt sure that her grandmother knew the name of every plant and tree that had ever been. The little girl liked to hear the unusual names so would ask her grandmother to tell her the names over and over again. It wasn’t just the plants growing in the garden either. When the little girl went on county walks with her grandmother, the names of the wild flowers were as familiar to her grandmother as any of the blooms in her garden.

The little girl showed such an interest in flowers, her grandmother bought her a beautiful book, which the little girl loved, with pictures of flowers and plants in. The book was called “Flower Fairies” and each different plant had a different tiny fairy pictured with it. Each tiny fairy was dressed in the leaves and flowers from the plants to which they belonged. For then on the little girl would always look for the flower fairies in the garden and look for them on the county walks. Of course flower fairies are difficult to see because they are wearing leaves and flowers, beautifully camouflaged, but the little girl kept looking for them and kept hoping to see one.