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Virtual Mary Gardens

John S. Stokes Jr.

Virtual Mary Gardens of Flowers of Our Lady surrounding her statue
quicken us to reflection and meditation on the Blessed Virgin's
life, virtues and mysteries much as we experience this in actual
outdoor Mary Gardens.

We create virtual Mary Gardens using garden design computer
software, but instead of locating multiple plants on a planting
plan for an actual outdoor garden, we position one of each around
an image of Our Lady for clarity of meditational focus, much as we
do in indoor dish Mary Gardens.

Virtual Mary Gardens thus enable us to attain meditational
familiarity with Our Lady's Flower symbols before we actually grow
them in our outdoor Mary Gardens.

For those who are unable to have actual Mary Gardens, virtual
gardens permit participation in the medieval Mary Garden experience
through their computers.

(Design your own - the FLOWERscape software program is so
simple to use that children call it "the Flower Game".

Some Virtual Mary Gardens:

     Introductory 12 Variety Annuals Mary Garden

     Popular Flowers of Our Lady Mary Garden

     Sorrowful Mary Garden (See Garden Way of the Cross)

     Early Blooming Bulbs and Plants


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Lawn and flower graphics copyright 1992-1997 FLOWERscape by Richard
H. Kline
 
Sorrowful Mary Garden design and Passion Flower copyright Mary's
Gardens 1998

Weeping Madonna of La Salette statuette artist & copyright not known


          

Copyright Mary's Gardens 1998