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Representative Mary Gardens

Mother Mary Garden - St. Joseph's Church, Woods Hole, MA.
     Believed to be the first public Mary Garden in the United
     States.  Original planting in 1932.  Plan developed over a
     five year period through 1957 by Dorothea K. Harrison,
     landscape architect. The inspiration and mother garden for the 
     contemporary Mary Garden restoration movement.  Plant List.

Home Mary Garden
     A Mary Garden in which a little girl learns of Our Lady and her
     Divine Son from the medieval Flowers of Our Lady.

School Mary Garden
     The first Mary Garden we designed with the benefit of the
     fuller variety of popular flowers available through research
     into old German and Latin American, as well as English, 
     religious flower names.  Plant List.

Parish Mary Garden
     Magnificent Mary Garden at St. Mary's Parish, Annapolis,
     Maryland, established in 1989, adjacent to historic Carroll
     House.  Original focal sculpture, "Mary of Nazareth"
     dedicated 1991.  Cared for by parish Mary Garden Guild and
     fully integrated into Parish and School life.

Parish Mary Garden
     Mary Garden at Saint Catherine of Siena Parish, Portage,
     Michigan of beautifully landscaped design along entire south
     side of the church building.  Planted by parishioners under
     the inspiration of Pastor, Fr. Thomas Stanley, S.M. - long
     time Mary Gardener, who established the first Mary Garden at
     a diocesan shrine, the Our Lady of Lourdes Shrine at Dayton,
     Ohio in 1954.  Augmented in 1996 by the installation of a
     specially conceived and sculpted focal statue of 'Mary, Model
     of the Church.

Parish Mary Garden
     Raised bed Mary Garden at Our Lady's Parish, Wangaratta,
     Victoria, Australia - inspired by pilgrimage visit of
     Pastor, Fr. James Byrne, to raised beds of Knock Shrine
     Mary Garden.

Shrine Mary Garden
     Mary Garden established at Our Lady's Shrine, Knock, Co. Mayo,
     Ireland by Msgr. James Horan, Shrine Director, and Shrine
     Horticulturalist Anne Hopkins Lavin, in consultation with
     Bro. Sean MacNamara, Irish Mary Garden Associate in 1983.
     Plant list, including "Mhuire" flowers named for Mary in
     medieval Gaelic.

Convent Mary Garden
     Located on a shady hillside on the grounds of the Episcopal
     Convent of the Transfiguration in suburban Glendale, this Mary
     Garden surrounds a statue of the Madonna and Child which had
     been placed there sometime in the 1960's.

Mary Garden of Remembrance
     Garden planted in the enclosed burial plot at the Artane
     Oratory of the Resurrection, of the Christian Brothers, in            
     Dublin by Mary's Gardens Associate, Bro. Sean McNamara,
     botanist and former Chairman of the National Garden
     Association of Ireland.  Includes modern strains of Our Lady's
     Flowers as well as the original wild species.  Plant list.

Meditation Mary Garden
     Garden of plants selected for the theological clarity of their
     medieval symbolism, as a basis for meditation.  Many of our
     articles written on the basis of reflections while tending
     this garden.

Herb Mary Garden
     Mary Garden planted at her "Garden of Memories" herb nursery
     by Herbarist and Mary's Gardens Associate, Bonnie Roberson,
     of Hagerman, Idaho.


St. Francis Garden
     St. Francis Garden in the cloister of Trinity Church, Copley
     Square, Boston. Photo.

     a - Water Color painting of Garden against the background
         of Trinity Church and Boston's Hancock Tower - a
         symbolic summation of sacred history from Eden to
         Christ's Church to the Heavenly City.

     b - "Mary Gardening With St. Francis", written for Asisi
         Magazine, Dublin, March 1961, with close-up photo of
         Trinity Church St. Francis Garden statue.


Cloister Mary Garden
     Mary Garden planting in the cloister of Lincoln Cathedral in
     England.  Designed and maintained by members of the Lincoln
     Herb Society.  Reproduction of composite painting of plants
     in the Garden, by Diana Aitchison, with plant key and list 
     - courtesy of The Flower Arranger, London.

Prison Mary Garden
     A Mary Garden established at Idaho State Penitentiary with a 
     painting by a prisoner artist of Our Lady of Guadalupe on a
     large rock as garden focal figure.

Exhibit Mary Garden
     Exhibit Mary Garden displayed at the 1968 Philadelphia Flower
     Show, on invitation of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society.
     Designed by Mary's Gardens Associate, horticulturalist and
     organizer of English and Irish garden tours, Martha Ludes
     Garra.  Awarded certificate of special merit by flower show
     judges.  Plant list and planting plan.

Sculptor's Mary Garden
     Mary Garden of Liturgical Artist, Ade Bethune, Newport, Rhode
     Island with focal figures of Mary, Seat of Wisdom and St.
     Joseph, Garden Workman, designed for Mary Garden use.


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