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                                               Intro Mary Garden

For New Gardeners

Suggestions for your first Mary Garden:

     1 - Plant an Indoor Windowsill Dish Mary Garden
with one each of 4 to 6 House Plants of Our Lady, placed around a
ceramic or plaster figurine of Mary or of Mary and the Christ Child
in a deep dish of drained soil material.  Plants are available from
mail order greenhouses and some retail house plant suppliers
(ordered by common or botanical names).

     2 - Plant an Outdoor Container Mary Garden on patio, terrace
or deck, using a soil-filled 10" or 15" wide flower pot in which five or so ever-blooming annual Flowers of Our Lady can be
positioned around a Marian figurine.

     3 - Plant a small Outdoor Mary Garden
of three each (or more) of 6 to 10 Flowers of Our Lady, placed
around a wall or pole mounted wayside shrine shelter and ceramic
figurine, or around a pedestal mounted outdoor statue.

     -  Start with plants available from mail order or
        retail nurseries and some retail garden centers, or

     -  Start from seeds sown either directly in your garden; or
        sown indoors 4 to 6 weeks before outdoor seed sowing time
        (danger of frost past, in temperate climatic zones) and
        then transplanted to your garden.  First blooms
        appear after 12 weeks or so of growth. Seeds
        available from mail order seed companies and some
        garden centers.


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