How to Make a Rosary Garden in 10 Easy Steps

Last updated on: February 6, 2015 at 3:06 pm by Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB

How to Make a Rosary Garden in 10 Easy Steps 2015-02-06T15:06:34-05:00 Margaret Rose Realy, Obl. OSB

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Want to incorporate a rosary garden into an existing landscape? Here’s an easy way to line a walkway, enhance a garden bed, or circle a tree.

1–Purchase: 59-60, 4’-6’ bamboo stakes. You’ll want the poles tall enough for the beads to be seen among the plants and not hidden.

2–Purchase round plastic Christmas ornaments 53 for the mater beads and 6 of a different color or larger size for pater beads. They kind of look like mini gazing balls once arranged.

3–Buy or make a cross, appropriately sized to compliment the size of the beads.

4–Choose the location for your raised rosary. It looks amazing in the sunlight, especially when viewed from a window or while sitting in the shade.

5–Push stakes in ground. Evenly space mater bead poles, and add a little more distance between a decade for the pole to support the pater bead.

6–Remove hanger caps from ornaments.

7–Place ornament upside down on poles.

8–To seal open end, add outdoor caulk around pole at base of ornament.

9–Set the cross in place.

10–Sit, stay, pray.

For more faith filled gardening activities, check out my latest book, A Catholic Gardener’s Spiritual Almanac, from Ave Maria Press. It’s the first book to offer gardeners spiritual resources and creative projects that connect a love of gardening with their Catholic faith.

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