It’s a rare opportunity to have a  tree stump large enough to hollow out and build a feature like this.

Daniels Wood Land makes something a little less restrained (though they do custom work and I speak from experience when I tell you that they are great to partner with).   When I worked with them, all of their play structures were built on real stumps sourced responsibly in California wilderness’s but after a visit to their website,  it looks like they have now moved on to fabricate stumps (Huge tree stumps presumably not being an easily renewable resource.). Personally, I think the fairy garden house above is an appealing folly feature (if you are lucky enough to have an enormous stump in your garden) but (maybe it’s because my own kids have gotten a little older) the appeal of the pirate ship below is a little beyond me.  What do you think?

akes Daniels Wood Land.