Garden Details
Garden Details
A religious garden nestled among the mature trees that populate the garden featuring many statues and memorials honoring Jesus, the Blessed Mother, and Saints. Featuring many flower beds and over 20 large flower pots, the Prayer Gardens multiple patios with benches offer the visitors an opportunity to pray and meditate. The Stations of the Cross and its pathway around the center of the garden is popular during Lent. Eagle Scout Projects (11) include crushed stone pathways, Gazebo, Pergola, Stone Lourdes Grotto and many more. Girl Scouts have planted several trees and painted stones. There is a large pond with a water fountain as well as a flowing stream in the garden.
Garden Practices
Garden Practices
We try hard to provide a quiet place to pray and meditate while nestled among nature. Bring your lunch and eat at one of the three picnic tables.
Ash trees, Black Walnuts and a few Maple trees populate the Prayer Gardens. Shrubs include Dogwoods and Crepe Myrtle. Flowers include Daffodils, Hyacinth, and Vinca. We also have Forsythia, Wisteria, and Veraegted Willow in the garden.
The Prayer Garden has hosted several Girl Scout and Boy Scout projects as well as local parishioners who help as volunteers.
Additional Information
Additional Information
Planting trees and flowers that the deer do not like or cage the trees. Wind storms always knock down many branches that have to be picked up.
Greater public exposure to drive up the utilization of the Prayer Garden.
The Lansdale Reporter newspaper wrote an article on the Prayer Garden. We have hosted many Scout Projects over the past 15 years. We have been successful at cutting down dead trees and selling it as firewood . We have been self sufficient since we started doing this eight years ago.
