Back then, miniature gardening had taken off in the US, but I only found a couple of stores stocking fairy garden miniatures here in Australia and none of them had anything like this. I showed my sister, who had never even heard of fairy gardening before, and she also fell in love with these cute miniatures. So much so that she said “we have to get these into Australia” – and so My Little Fairy Garden was born.

We started with only three suppliers and an eBay store, then launched our website in March 2013 as the popularity of our miniatures increased. We continued to search locally and overseas to bring our customers a range of high quality and great value miniature gardening products.

I love what we do, because we inspire children to learn about and respect nature through gardening. Fairies being ‘spirits of nature’ ignite young imaginations as well as represent a strong message of conservation. All learnt through play. And we’ve found adults are enchanted by our minitatuers just as much as children are. Whether it be in the garden, as a visual escape from the day to day norm, or collecting the beautiful figurines of the much loved Cicely Mary Barker Flower Fairies who’s paintings and poems we all grew up with.