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Beginning Indoor Dish Mary Garden Plants.
Choose 4 or 5:
Religious Name Botanical Name Common Name
"Fair Olive Tree" Olea Europea Olive Tree
Trinity Oxalis braziliensis "Shamrock"
Star of Bethlehem Begonia, rhizomatic hybrid Star of Bethlm
Mary's Sword of Sorrow Iris gen. Iris
Crown of Thorns Euphorbia splendens Crown of Thorns
Tears of Mary Cymbalaria muralis Kenilworth Ivy
Mother-of-Thousands Menthe Requine Spanish Moss
Herb of Grace Ruta graveolens Rue
Mary's Heart Begonia fuchsoides Begonia
Our Lady's Mantle Alchemilla vulgaris Ladies Mantle
Rosary Vine Ceropegia woodii Heart Vine
Prayer Plant Moranta Leuonerri Kerchon. Prayer Plant
The mail order source we use:
Logee's Greenhouses, 141 North Street, Danielson, CT 06239
Phone: 203-774-8038.
Specify small plants for dish garden use. Some are naturally
small, but others will grow too large and will have to be replaced
after a time with new small specimens.
1) Prepare dish and soil and plant, as described in Indoor Dish
Mary Garden Planting and Care.
2) For suggested use in devotion, prayer and meditation, see
My Garden Prays
Copyright Mary's Gardens, 1965, 1996