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Intro Mary Garden
Annapolis Mary Garden
St. Mary's Parish Annapolis, Maryland
VISITORS' GUIDE
The religious names of the
symbolical Flowers of Our Lady
in St. Mary's Parish Mary Garden
are displayed, together with
their more familiar common
names, on hand-crafted wooden
markers at each flower group.
This guide provides a full
list of these names, together
with the scientific botanical
name for each species, and a
numerical key indicating the
location for each in the
accompanying plan of the Garden.
The numbers have been
assigned in the general sequence
in which you come upon the
groups as you enter the Garden,
from the parking lot, by the
southeast corner of St. Mary's
Church, and proceed through it
in clockwise manner, returning
to the point where you entered.
Most of the flowers indicated on the plan are biennial or
perennial flowers of limited bloom duration - some spring,
some summer and some fall. For Garden color through the
year, selected annual flowers, as indicated, have been planted
throughout the garden, as well as at the locations indicated by
marker and by plan identifying number.
As you walk through the Garden, identifying the flowers and
plants by their names, view the symbolical form and color of each
imaginatively as it might have been seen by the faithful of the
medieval countrysides: as a distillation of the quality of a
mystery, virtue, event or article of reverence.
Then, take the list with you and in moments of recollection
let your imagination range over all the flowers in it, rejoicing
and giving thanks for their contribution to the the richness of the
popular religious traditions supporting our faith.
And, in your daily life, as you encounter flowers - in field
and roadside, gardens, window boxes, bouquets, florist's shops and
shopping malls:
"Look on the flower, think of Mary"
Planting Plan
Plant List
COMMON NAME RELIGIOUS NAME BOTANIAL NAME
1. Sage Mary's Shawl Salvia officinalis
2. Roses The Rosary Rosa sp.
3. Creeping Thyme Mary's Bedstraw Thymus serphyllum
4. Lavender Cotton St. John's Plant Santolina chama.
5. Everlasting Lady Neverfade Antennaria dioca
6. Harebell Lady's Thimble Campanula rotundif.
7. Red Yarrow Christ's Back Achillea millef.
8. Wild Cranesbill Madonna's Pins Geramium maculatum
9. Strawberry Faithfulness Fragaria vesca
10. Roman Wormwood Lady's Needle Artemisia pontica
11. Thistle (?) Mary's Nettle (?)
12. Star of Bethlehem Bethlehem Star Ornithogalum umbel.
13. Geranium Madonna's Pins Pelargonium
14. Lady Apple Lady Apple Pyrus Malus var.
15. Russian Sage Perovskia Perovskia atripl.
16. Clematis Virgin's Bower Clematis vitalba
17. Honeysuckle Lady Fingers Loniera caprifolium
18. Hydranga Ave Maria Hydranga macro mar.
19. Goutweed Bishop's Weed Aegopodium podagr.
20. Crepe Myrtle Her Virginity Myrtus communis
21. Angel Wing Begonia Heart of Jesus Begonia argentia
22. Lily-of-the Valley Stairway to Heaven Convallaria majel.
23. Lady's Mantle Lady's Mantle Alchemilla speciosa
24. Madonna Lily Madonna Lily Lilium speciosum
25. Peony Mary's Rose Paeonia officinalis
26. Veronica Mary's Faith Veronica longifolia
27. Rose Mary's Rose Rosa sp.
28. English Lavender Flight Into Egypt Lavandula ang.
29. Maiden Grass Maiden Grass Miscanthus sp.
30A German Iris Mary's Sword Iris germanica
30B Valerian Keys to Heaven Valeriana offic.
31. Hawthorn Mary's Berry Craetaegus monogyna
32. Blue Phlox Lady's Wedding Phlox divaricata
33. Rhododendron St. John's Mayflowr Rhododendron
34. White Plantain Lily Assumption Lily Hosta plantaginea
35. Turkestan Rose Mary's Rose Rosa rugosa
36. Spiderwort Lady's Tears Tradescantia virg.
37. Loostrife Cross-Wort Lysimachia quadrif.
38. Foxglove Virgin's Glove Digitalis purpurea
39. Day Lily Fleur de Lys Hemerocallis lilio.
40. Blue Star Tabernacle Amsonia tabern.
41. Wall Pepper Lady's Hair Sedum acre
42. Dahlia Churchyard Flower Dahlia pinnata
43. Japanese Iris Trinity Iris japanonica
44. Pansy Lady's Delight Viola tricolor
45. Hemp Tree Chaste Tree Vitex agnus-castus
46. Boxwood Candlemas Greens Buxus sempervirens
47. Dogwood Tree of the Cross Cornus florida
48. Azalea St. Joseph,Protector Azalea sp.
49. English Ivy Where God Walked Hedera helix
50. Jasmine Lady of Snows Jasminum azoricum
51. Guelder Rose Lady's Pincushion Viburnum opulus
52. Hollyhock St. Joseph's Staff Alcea rosea
53. Black-Eyed Susan Golden Jerusalem Rudbekia hirta
54. Stewartia Purity Camellia pseuco cam.
55. Petunia Petunia Petunia hybrida
56. Lantana Sorrowful Face of M. Lantana montevi.
57. Yucca Lord's Candle Yucca aloifolia
58. Chrysanthemum Three Kings Chrysanthemum ind.
--. Impatiens Jesus Tears Impatiens wallerana
--. Zinnea The Virgin Zinnea elegans
Some Reflections
Mary's Rose. In beholding the red color of this flower, we recall
that Mary is the beautiful Mystical Rose in God's garden of souls,
whom he created and blessed to be the Mother of his Divine Son,
Savior of the world. We pray to Mary that our souls, too, may bud
forth as the rose, praising God in love.
Our Lady's Pincushion. As we look at the flower pins in their
foliage cushions, we think of Our Lady's wonder and joy as she
sewed garments for the Divine Redeemer she was to bear. Like Mary,
we offer all our work and thoughts to God.
Our Lady's Mantle. We raise our thoughts from the blue of Our
Lady's Mantle to the spiritual mantle with which Mary, Mother of
the all-powerful God, and our Heavenly Mother also, mercifully
protects all who turn to her for her perpetual help. We beseech
her protection from all dangers.
Our Lady's Delight. Like Mary, we take delight in flowers as God's
riches and artistry, showing forth the beauty of heaven on earth.
We take heart that with Our Lady's merciful intercession and
mediation we will see God's beauty face to face in heaven.
Photo: Vincenzina Krymow
Copyright, Mary's Gardens 1992