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Help - my Lenten project was to plan and start a Mary Garden. I am totally lost and do not know where to start. My garden would be mainly shaded. Please would you share any information about where to purchase a nice outdoor statue, and any information about plants, layout etc. Pictures would be awesome.
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Oh, boy! There was an big old thread about this last year with some great book and website recommendations. See if you can search archives for it-definitely a great resource list.
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Marilyn -
I love this idea! The book I hope to get for Mother's Day might help you. It is called Mary's Flowers by Vincenzina Krymow. Amazon has it. I also think there was a website I found on a search that helps with planning a Mary Garden. My favorite source for herbs and perennials is Well-Sweep Herb Farm (www.wellsweep.com). They have an amazing selection, but their catalogue doesn't have pictures. I usually figure out what I want from a *picture catalogue* and then order from their text catalogue (which is over 60 pages long).
I hope you have a wonderful time with this project. Please share how it takes shape!
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hylabrook1 wrote:
Marilyn -
I My favorite source for herbs and perennials is Well-Sweep Herb Farm (www.wellsweep.com). They have an amazing selection, but their catalogue doesn't have pictures. I usually figure out what I want from a *picture catalogue* and then order from their text catalogue (which is over 60 pages long).
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LOL Nancy! This farm is 10 minutes from my house and I have never gone. Since when is anything on this list local?  I think I will be planning a field trip soon...
As to the Mary Garden thing...I am doing that too...for the first time. Well, I sort of started last year and got rather derailed. the mgardens.org site is great and loaded with info. It takes awhile to uncover all the treasures, but it is worth it! We sort of built a Mary garden of sorts in our Marian notebooks we have s l o w l y been compiling. Wouldn't it be fun if we could go through this adventure together?? 
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Marilyn,
Do you have this website?
Mary Gardens
I usually attempt this container Mary Garden
I did a quick search in A Living Faith and didn't come up with the old thread. Maybe it is in Fireside Chat.
Thanks for getting us started on a spring theme!
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Maybe in great outdoors. Bunch of gardening stuff there.
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We are trying to plan one too. I have looked at some websites, but I really appreciate the links y'all
The kids are excited about this, more so than the veggie garden I want. If we have to only do one I guess it will have to be the Mary one. 
I have not given up on the idea of two yet though!
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I think this is the thread that you want - Mary's Flowers. There is a link there to Stefoodie's garden blog where she has that wonderful excel spreadsheet of flowers.
There was this thread on Saint in the Garden that talks about Mary Gardens as well.
There was as some discussion specifically about MAry Gardens and Rosary Gardens in this thread.
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Thank you all for the information and threads - just what I need. I am going to just get started - put my perfectionist planning tendencies aside as I get overwhelmed - for this year I will buy a statue (mother's day advance gift)and we will prepare a small area with a few plants. I will keep adding to it. (Kind of like my liturgical color altar cloths which I bought just before Advent - then awful pregnancy sickness hit - but I am still using them - unhemmed around the edges!!)
My goal is to have it done by May. Maybe we can all trade pictures.
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