https://udayton.edu/marianlibrary/marysgardens/w/wayside-marian-shrines.php "This is a return to the spirituality of medieval times, when symbolical flowers were characteristically encountered in and gathered from the countrysides rather than gardens. In this period, when people traveled mostly afoot, flower prayers were focused, not by garden statues or grottos of Our Lady, but by wayside shines or field crosses encountered as they moved about."
