Mary Gardens: Flowers for Our Lady from Fish Eaters — great historical information and list! Some of the items here I haven’t seen in others.
Mary Gardens Historical Perspective by John S. Stokes, Jr. from the EWTN Library
Mary Gardens from Daniel J. Foley, Editor of Horticulture, The Herbarist, 1933 from the EWTN Library
Pictures of Mary Gardens:
at the National Shrine
The Fourteen Stations — it would be awesome to have this as part of the garden!
Flower Theology by John S. Stokes, Jr.
Oooh! And I didn’t know the author of Mary’s Flowers wrote a book too on “Healing Plants of the Bible”!
Why am I doing all this now? Because we’re in the “-ber” months already! And winter sowing is around the corner! I have to get potting soil and get my containers ready. Poke holes in them with a hot wooden skewer, put the soil in, and label with permanent marker (this time I’ll use numbers and have an index in my garden binder). At wintertime all I’ll need to do is scatter the seeds on top, rake them in lightly with a fork, sprinkle with water and place in Ziploc bags. Hmmm… maybe I’ll buy a sheet of plastic from the hardware store and use our patio table as my “greenhouse”. Thinking….
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