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Beginning Outdoor Mary Garden Plants

Plants suggested for a first time small outdoor Mary Garden.
Annuals A, Biennials treated as Annuals B-A, and Perennials P.
Choose 6 to 10:

Religious Name         Botanical Name              Common Name

Annunciation Lily      Lilium candidum (P)         Madonna Lily
Our Lady's Earrings    Impatiens balsaminum (A)    Garden Balsam
Our Lady in-the-Shade  Nigella damsacena (A)       Love-in-a-Mist
Our Lady's Delight     Viola tricolor (B-A)        Pansy
Our Lady's Pincushion  Scabiosa atropurpurea (A)   Sweet Scabious
Mary-Loves             Bellis perennis (B-A)       English Daisy
Mary's Tears           Delphinium ajacis (A)       Annual Larkspur
Mary's Gold            Tagetes patula & erecta (A) Marigold
Our Lady's Mantle      Ipomoea purpurea (A)        Morning Glory
Eyes of Mary           Myosotis alpestris (B-A)    Forget-me-nots
Mother Love            Impatiens walerana  (A)     Patient Lucy
Mary's Crown           Centauria cyannis (A)       Bachelor's Btns
Our Lady's Praises     Petunia hybrida (A)         Petunia
The Virgin             Zinnea elegens (A)          Zinnia

Pansies and English Daisies will withstand frost and are excellent
border plants for starting the garden season

1) Dig and prepare garden soil, as described in Mary Garden Digging,
   Planting and Tending

   Make planting plan for placement of plants and seedlings, and
   sowing of seeds.  Plant and sow.

2) Or start your seeds 4 to 6 weeks earlier indoors in seed starting
   trays, and transplant seedlings to garden after danger of frost 
   is past.


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