Saints for Sale

One of the odd and fun offerings of Bay Area nurseries and garden centers
is the statuary section. It seems that it’s not enough to have plants,
gardens need decorations too.

By tradition, around 500 BCE, Siddhartha Gautama was sitting underneath a
Bo-Tree when he was
“awakened” (Buddha). Around 1220 in Italy,

St. Francis of Assisi gave a sermon to wild birds, earning
himself a place in hearts and gardens around the world. In the last century,

Flower fairies have become very popular among the less orthodox.
Representations of these and a variety of other religious statuary are
presented for sale at our local Orchard Supply Hardware, along with frogs
and less likely garden inhabitants.