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Easter Gardens

As I usually set off on my annual pilgrimage a few days after Easter, I find that I see lots of Easter gardens inside and outside churches and chapels as I walk. These vary greatly but to make a basic Easter garden you just need some sort of container with earth and sand in it, a few twigs and some twine or string to fashion the three crosses of Good Friday, a few stones to represent the empty sepulchre, some greenery and perhaps some spring flowers. The photos show some of the examples I have seen in recent years.

  • Lots of spring flowers. Seen in a church in mid-Wales.
  • A rather grand example in Hereford Cathedral.
  • Simplicity outside a Baptist church in Herefordshire.
  • I think the Sunday School might have made this joyful example.
  • Small but perfectly formed, including the folded grave-clothes.
  • Probably my favourite. On the steps in a church porch in Somerset.
  • ‘Risen from the tomb’. A lovely Easter garden using an ancient grave as a base.
  • Outside a Methodist Church on the Isle of Man.

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