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Today, the Mary Garden is full and mature. 8, the feast of Mary's birth, the traditional day for blessing the harvest and the seeds for the coming spring. In 1991, Father Murray dressed in his finest vestments and sprinkled the garden with holy water. "I've had to believe that she wanted it there," says Mrs.
Van Geffen, at cocktail parties and in church, had collected the $35,000 to pay for It. Tons of topsoil were moved in, and a statue was commissioned. Van Geffen, a heavy-duty volunteer who, at 50, has the freedom to garden that only older children can give you, joined Mrs. Tony Dove, curator of the gardens at London Towne Publik House in Edgewater, and Mrs. "Just don't ask me for any money," he said cheerfully.
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Sears his blessing to turn a patch of weeds and gum wrappers behind the church into such a tribute. I wanted a Mary Garden as a tribute to her and to be closer to her. I feel she is there, a part of everything beautiful in the outdoors. "I don't ever walk through a garden that I haven't thought of her. "Having grown up with a family who loved the woods and the wilds, it is part of me," says Mrs. Joseph's staff.) She had been waiting since 1945, when a garden club lecturer first told her of Mary Gardens, to create such a church garden. Mary's parishioner who, at 76, is not much taller than the hollyhock spikes she tends. The Mary Garden began as a seed in the determined mind of Nan Sears, a St. The hedge trimmer she grips with two hands flies like a sword which is a sharp contrast to her words. "There is a tranquility here that keeps coming back in the middle of our crazy lives," says Kahla Lehman. It is a meditation on Christ's mother that requires 70 bags of mulch twice a year. It is a spiritual Journey that needs to be watered and weeded. Even parishioners who pass through it on their way to the parking lot after Mass are not all aware of its symbolism.įor the handful of women of St Mary's who tend it, this patch of earth represents something between God and gardening. The breezes of nearby Spa Creek rustle it softly, like a prayer. Mary's Church, hardly known beyond the high walls of the 300-year-old church and rectory that protect it. Mary's is the largest one in a parish, and praises it for its beauty and its spirituai roots. McTague, in 1951 began a spare-time project called Mary's Gardens in Philadelphia, remains the official arbiter and historian. Joseph's Church in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1932. The flrst public garden dedicated to the Virgin seems to have been the Garden of Our Lady at St. Somewhere between the muddy reality of tilled soil and the chaste beauty of the woman for whom the flowers are named, there lies the Mary Garden. "I would have preferred a revelation to years of backbreaking work." Van Geffen drives a spade into the soft, spring earth where another rosebush will be planted. "I'm Catholic, but I never understood the veneration of Mary. "I feel as if I've been tricked," she says as she wipes her sweaty forehead with the back of a garden-gloved hand. "If it is heaven," she adds, "the Saints and angels are laughing at me." "And you really feel that this must be what heaven is like," says Laura Van Geffen. Birds gather for an evening bath in the fountain that burbles at the sandaled, granite feet of Mary and Jesus. Sailboats whisper in and out of Spa Creek.
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But they don't come to meditate among the flowers.īending their tired backs to weed or plant, they hear hymns drift out from the stained-glass windows of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Annapolis often arrive in early evening, when the sun has cooled and the chores of their secular lives are finished. Women in the Mary Garden feed a flowering of the spiritīy Susan Reimer, Sun Staff Correspondent The Baltimore Sun, Sunday May 14, 1995 Heaven and earth meet in the peace and beauty of the Mary Garden behind St.
Parishioner Care of Garden, Photos "Seeds of Devotion" Desciption of the Garden Planting Plant List and Planting Plan Dedication and Blessing Visitors' Guide Garden Tour Developmental Correspondence 1990-1997
Cared for by parish Mary Garden Guild and fully integrated into Parish and School life. Original focal sculpture, "Mary of Nazareth" dedicated 1991. Mary's Parish, Annapolis, Maryland, established in 1989, adjacent to historic Carroll House.