Complement your fairy garden figurines, fairy houses, terrariums, paths, etc., with real living plants! The perfect fairy garden accessory is a live plant...one that a true fairy might enjoy.
Read More about Fairy Garden Plants
Acorus gramineus 'Licorice'
Item #: 219
Zones: 6a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Acorus gramineus 'Ogon'
Item #: 369
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Adiantum aleuticum 'Imbricatum'
Item #: 9827
Zones: 3a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Adiantum capillus-veneris 'Bermuda Run'
Item #: 9016
Zones: 7b to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Bermuda
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave albopilosa
Item #: 9610
Zones: 8a to 10b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave funkiana 'Tug Boat II'
Item #: 11729
Zones: 9a to 11, possibly colder
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave x leopoldii 'Painted Nails'
Item #: 11099
Zones: 8a to 10b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave multifilifera 'Silly String'
Item #: 10278
Zones: 8a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave parryi ssp. huachucensis 'Excelsior'
Item #: 7868
Zones: 7b to 9b, possibly colder
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico, United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave victoriae-reginae 'Bustamante'
Item #: 12317
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave victoriae-reginae 'Lemonade'
Item #: 12175
Zones: 8a to 10b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave victoriae-reginae 'Porcupine'
Item #: 8390
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave victoriae-reginae 'Ring of Gold'
Item #: 8795
Zones: 9a to 10b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Agave victoriae-reginae 'Tora Fu'
Item #: 8599
Zones: 8a to 10b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Ajuga 'Parrot Paradise' PPAF
Item #: 16733
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Italy
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Ajuga pyramidalis 'Metallica Crispa Purpurea'
Item #: 39
Zones: 3a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop' PP 15,815
Item #: 13515
Zones: 3a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Ajuga tenorei 'Blueberry Muffin' PP 22,092
Item #: 14897
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Italy
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Ajuga tenorei 'Cordial Canary' PPAF
Item #: 16734
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Italy
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Ajuga tenorei 'Princess Nadia' PP 31,028
Item #: 15031
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Italy
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Ajuga 'Tropical Toucan' PPAF
Item #: 16739
Zones: 4a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Italy
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Allium kiiense
Item #: 3352
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Alocasia wentii
Item #: 2967
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 36" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: New Guinea
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Aloe aristata
Item #: 8526
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Alstroemeria 'Princess Fabiana' PP 17,991
Item #: 9555
Zones: 7b to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Hybrid
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Amsonia ciliata var. filifolia 'Georgia Pancake'
Item #: 5375
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 5" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Anomatheca laxa
Item #: 6986
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Anomatheca laxa 'Joan Evans'
Item #: 13004
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Summer
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: South Africa
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Antirrhinum glutinosum 'White Hot'
Item #: 11833
Zones: 7b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Spain
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Antirrhinum hispanicum
Item #: 8364
Zones: 5a to 8b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Sun
Origin: Spain
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Arisaema thunbergii ssp. urashima
Item #: 2663
Zones: 5a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter, Fall
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: Bare Root / 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum fauriei var. takaoi 'Ginba'
Item #: 5622
Zones: 4b to 8a
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 2" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum fauriei var. takaoi 'Roundabout'
Item #: 9820
Zones: 4b to 8b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 3" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum nobilissimum 'Crown Royal'
Item #: 13297
Zones: 7a to 9b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum nobilissimum 'Deep Throat'
Item #: 3660
Zones: 7a to 9b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum nobilissimum 'Iron Butterfly'
Item #: 13448
Zones: 7a to 9b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum nobilissimum 'King Kong'
Item #: 9568
Zones: 7a to 9b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum nobilissimum 'Vortex'
Item #: 13447
Zones: 7a to 9b, guessing
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum speciosum 'Woodlanders Select'
Item #: 3566
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 10" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Asarum splendens
Item #: 720
Zones: 5a to 9b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Athyrium niponicum 'Burgundy Lace' PP 15,072
Item #: 5105
Zones: 4a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China, Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Bigelowia nuttallii
Item #: 11079
Zones: 5a to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Blechnum nipponicum
Item #: 5629
Zones: 6a to 7b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: Japan
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Brunnera macrophylla 'Alexander's Great' PP 25,789
Item #: 6251
Zones: 3a to 7b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Mediterranean Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack Frost' PP 13,859
Item #: 3367
Zones: 3a to 7b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Mediterranean Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Brunnera macrophylla 'Jack of Diamonds' PPAF
Item #: 15742
Zones: 3a to 7b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 14" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Mediterranean Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Brunnera macrophylla 'Queen of Hearts' PP 32,737
Item #: 15741
Zones: 3a to 7b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 18" tall
Culture: Light Shade to Shade
Origin: Mediterranean Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Campanula poscharskyana 'Camgood'
Item #: 8037
Zones: 4a to 7b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Balkans
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Cardamine bulbosa 'Fairy Lights'
Item #: 16976
Zones: 6a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 17" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 2.5" pot (7.9 fl. oz/233 ml) ?
Cardamine quinquefolia
Item #: 10148
Zones: 6a to 8b, guessing
Dormancy: Summer, Fall
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Asia Minor, Bulgaria, Caucasus Mountains, Iran, Southern Europe, Turkey
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Carex bromoides
Item #: 12439
Zones: 4a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun to Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Carex radiata 'Halifax'
Item #: 10007
Zones: 5a to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Carex scaposa
Item #: 12591
Zones: 6b to 9b, at least
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 12" tall
Culture: Light Shade
Origin: China, Vietnam
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Cheilanthes distans
Item #: 9545
Zones: 7b to 10b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Australia, New Zealand
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Cheilanthes lanosa 'Montgomery'
Item #: 8804
Zones: 5a to 8b
Dormancy: Evergreen
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Chrysogonum virginianum 'Pierre'
Item #: 5269
Zones: 5a to 8b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 6" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Clematis ochroleuca 'Bald Knob'
Item #: 5943
Zones: 4b to 8b, at least
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 15" tall
Culture: Sun to Part Sun
Origin: Mexico, United States
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Colocasia heterochroma 'Dark Shadows'
Item #: 6124
Zones: 8a to 10b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 8" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: China
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Convallaria majalis 'Fernwood's Golden Slippers'
Item #: 8774
Zones: 3a to 7b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 9" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Light Shade
Origin: Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
Convallaria majalis 'Hardwick Hall'
Item #: 6826
Zones: 3a to 7b
Dormancy: Winter
Height: 9" tall
Culture: Part Sun to Shade
Origin: Asia, Europe
Pot Size: 3.5" pot (24 fl. oz/0.7 L) ?
More Information About Fairy Garden Plants
Complement your fairy garden supplies...figurines, fairy houses, terrariums, paths, etc., with real living miniature plants for fairy gardens! The perfect fairy garden accessory is a live plant...one that a true fairy might enjoy.
Here at Plant Delights Nursery, we have a 6 acre garden that is filled with fairies, sprites, elves, gnomes, pixies and other mystical creatures. We asked our fairy friends about their favorite garden plants and they helped us put together this list of the best fairy garden plants for their bloom room. Use these fairy garden accessories to put the finishing touches on your whimsical fairyland.
The best fairy garden plants
Miniature plants for fairy gardens (dwarf plants)
- Anemonella - tiny leaves and button-like flowers
- Pheasant's Eye - tiny, fern-like foliage with a bright flower on top
- Creeping Sedum - a perfect, evergreen carpet with tony, round, succulent leaves
- Cyclamen - tiny pink flowers atop silver and green variegated heart-shaped leaves - a small plant for the miniature fairy garden
- Ice Plant - bright neon colors atop, low, succulent, evergreen leaves
- Dwarf Agaves - colorful and tiny, prickly, succulent plants for trolls to live under
- Laurentia - makes a carpet for tiny green leaves with tiny, fairy-sized blue flowers
- Buttercup - small yellow flowers atop heart shaped leaves
- Hens and Chicks - small, round, evergreen succulents make little babies that surround the momma plant
- Lysimachia - a carpet of yellow leaves
- Thyme - a miniature herb for fairy garden cooking
- Trillium - a very special, spring ephemeral plant with 3 variegated leaves.
- Venus fly trap - small plants that help keep your fairy garden bug-free
- Rain lilies - tiny little grass-like plants that send up flowers after every rain.
Larger plants for a fairy to sit under
- Jack in the pulpit - wide leaves can cover your fairy and the exotic flowers too
- Curcuma - tropical leaves with a very exotic pink flower
- Bleeding heart - pink, heart-shaped flowers keep you fairies company
- Ferns and selaginella - frilly foliage with a woodland feel
- Gaura - pink, butterfly-shaped flowers dance in the wind at the end of thin, wiry stems
- Gentian - electric blue flowers
- Lenten Rose - large leathery leaves and wonderful winter flowers
- Forget-me-not - tiny blue flowers for your love-sick fairies
- Nothoscordum - tiny, intensely fragrant, yellow flowers for your fairies to sniff.
- Small elephant ears (alocasia and colocasia) - large leaves make a roof over your fairies
- Miniature orchids like calanthe and lady slipper - beautiful and exotic flowers
- Shamrock - four-leaf clover-like foliage to give your fairies good luck
- Pitcher plant - vase-like, colorful insect traps and exotic, other-worldly leaves
- Surprise Lily - flowers pop-up out of nowhere in late summer
- Myoga ginger - large leaves shelter your fairies and the small, white, edible flowers small like ginger
Groundcover plants surround your fairy garden with a lush mini-forest
- Ajuga - makes a mat of leaves, topped in spring with small blue flowers
- Allium - another culinary plant for your fairies to cook with (fairy chives)
- Dutchman's Pipe - silver-veined leaves and exotic flowers shaped like a dutch meerschaum pipe attract pipevine-swallowtail caterpillars
- Asarum - leathery, heart-shaped leaves that hide cool, triangular flowers beneath.
- Small grasses - make a great bed for your sleepy fairies
- Green-and-Gold - a native woodland plant with yellow flowers
- Gloxinia - Flowers are so intensely red, your fairies will think they are a neon sign
- Coral Bells - colorful foliage topped with tiny flowers
- Dwarf hosta - colorful foliage with at a fairy-like scale
- Primula - colorful, fairy-sized flowers
- Lungwort - silver leaves with electric blue flowers
- Creeping verbena - a carpet of low leaves, topped with bright flowers
Plants with fairy names
- Fairy wings - charming little flowers are aptly named
- Fairy bells - dangling bell-shaped flowers
- Caryopteris 'Snow Fairy' - Variegated leaves and intricate blue flowers