Charlotte Catalan knows about gardening.

The 7-year-old Oakland girl has built fairy gardens using rocks, sticks and leaves. She was a little shy talking about them, but she found things she loved about Mary Nahm’s Huntington Street village Sunday during the Bowling Green Garden Club’s Fairy Garden Tour.

“I liked the little fairy store,” she said. “I liked everything about it.”

Charlotte was at the event with her mother, Amy Catalan, and her grandmother, Joanna Blubaugh, of Oakland.

“Charlotte builds lots of fairy gardens, so we’re trying to get ideas,” Catalan said. “It’s really fun.”

Nahm’s theme was “Fairy Willow Forest,” which featured little villages throughout.

“I’ve been collecting things for a couple of years, but I didn’t know what I was going to do with them. I knew I would be on (the tour) someday,” she said. “Once I did the town hall, I worked it out from there.”

Although she is a member of the garden club, this is her first time on the tour. She was working on things up to the last minute.

“I did the stick village last night,” she said.

Her forest also featured an inn, a general store, a fairy art school, Chinatown, a teeter-totter and a pond area, where fairies could relax and enjoy themselves. 

“The fun thing about the fairy garden tour is that it can be anything you need it to be, and the children have so much fun with it,” Nahm said. “If this tour touches one child to get into gardening, then it’s worth it.”

Sarah Wichman, her husband, Aaron, and their daughter, 3-year-old daughter, Breanne, were enjoying the tea and scavenger hunt at Lost River Cave.

“I’m a happy fairy,” Breanne said.

“There’s lots of sugar inside, which she enjoyed,” Sarah Wichman said, laughing.

Aaron Wichman agreed. “It’s always nice to come to Lost River,” he said.

Breanne also enjoyed the gardens.

“They are very delicate, so she was disappointed she couldn’t touch them,” Sarah Wichman said.

Kenzie Herron, 5, was at the tea with her mother, Amanda Herron and her “Nanna” Pat Herron, all of Bowling Green. When asked what she liked about the event she didn’t hesitate, talking about things she had collected during the scavenger hunt as well as seen on the tour.

“A yellow leaf and the playhouses,” she said.

Amanda Herron said the gardens were very pretty.

“We came to get ideas for our own garden, and we may do a fairy garden in the spring,” she said.

Pat Herron was impressed with the tour.

“They did a lot of work,” she said. “You get to enjoy the detailed work that they do.”

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