This week's "Keeping it Catholic Monday' post is a little bit late as we were out of town this Monday. For this week's post on our Keeping it Cathoic Monday I thought it would be fun to share about Mary Garden's. It is probably a little late to start planting at this point but fall is coming and it is always good to start planning ahead!
For now we have Mary in our garden but it isn't exactally a Mary Garden persay. I think the only plant that we have that bares Mary's name is the Rosemary plant that is near her (though hard to see from this angle), the rest of our garden are fruits and vegetables but we will soon be expanding!
Fish Eater's has a great resource for what plants to include in your Mary Garden and also some great history about the Mary Garden. What exactally IS a Mary Garden? As Fish Eater's website puts it " A Mary Garden is a garden, filled with flowers, plants and trees named for Our Lady and Jesus, designed to be a place of beauty that reminds us of our Lord and our Lady, allows one to experience God's creation,
and invites prayer and contemplation." What a wonderful way to decorate a yard with the wonder's of God's creations that bare Jesus and Mary's names. It also makes for a great lesson for children in seeing God in everything.
Mary Garden's are also a wonderful way to have fresh flowers for your home altar when those special feasts of Mary and Jesus' arrive throughout the liturgical year, such as the Feast of the Assumption, probably the most known for using the herbs and flowers with Mary's name.
For now we have Mary in our garden but it isn't exactally a Mary Garden persay. I think the only plant that we have that bares Mary's name is the Rosemary plant that is near her (though hard to see from this angle), the rest of our garden are fruits and vegetables but we will soon be expanding!
Fish Eater's has a great resource for what plants to include in your Mary Garden and also some great history about the Mary Garden. What exactally IS a Mary Garden? As Fish Eater's website puts it " A Mary Garden is a garden, filled with flowers, plants and trees named for Our Lady and Jesus, designed to be a place of beauty that reminds us of our Lord and our Lady, allows one to experience God's creation,
and invites prayer and contemplation." What a wonderful way to decorate a yard with the wonder's of God's creations that bare Jesus and Mary's names. It also makes for a great lesson for children in seeing God in everything.
Mary Garden's are also a wonderful way to have fresh flowers for your home altar when those special feasts of Mary and Jesus' arrive throughout the liturgical year, such as the Feast of the Assumption, probably the most known for using the herbs and flowers with Mary's name.
Mary's Flowers, looks like a wonderful book to get a person started on a Mary Garden though I haven't seen a copy of it myself. If you DO have a copy please let us know how you like it!
Please also share pictures of your Mary Garden if you already have one!
Please also share pictures of your Mary Garden if you already have one!
