RETIRED Cicely Mary Barker SHIRLEY POPPY Flower Fairy

The Flower Fairies are cast from polystone and hand painted vibrantly in a vast number of shades and hues. The flower fairies range in height from 4 to 4.5 inches.

Individually gift boxed, the flower fairies on their display base are packaged in a molded insert to keep the fairy safe with a clear window for viewing the fairy through the pictorial gift box.   

A perfect addition to Gnomeculture's THE FAIRY GARDEN  - See my eBay Store!

The Flower Fairy figurines have been created to reflect Cicely's attention to detail and delicacy - from the accurate representation of the petals and leaves to the intricate wings of the fairies

The Shirley Poppy Fairy 'We were all of us scarlet, and counted as weeds, When we grew in the fields with the corn; Now, fall from your pepper-pots, wee little seeds, And lovelier things shall be born! You shall sleep in the soil, and awaken next year; Your buds shall burst open; behold! Soft-tinted and silken, shall petals appear, And then into Poppies unfold- Like daintiest ladies, who dance and are gay, All frilly and pretty to see! So I shake out the ripe little seeds, and I say: "Go, sleep, and awaken like me!" (A clergyman, who was also a clever gardener, made these many-coloured poppies out of the wild ones, and named them after the village where he was the Vicar.)