06-11-2023 Capital Style - Flipbook - Page 12
H E A LT H Y L I V I N G
BY MARY CAROLE MCCAULEY Capital Style
A stream flows from a small waterfall through the length of the Healing Garden at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis. A reading frog, below,
is one of many sculptures that decorate the garden. PHOTOS BY KEVIN RICHARDSON
Healing garden
Tucked away in the Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center, it’s serene and pocket-sized
“Hi!” reads the carefully formed letters in the book with
the bright yellow cover tucked beneath a garden bench in the
hospital.
“My name is Celia and I’m nine years old. I’m here for a CAT
scan and I felt scared. But this is a pretty garden and it makes me
feel better.”
Celia is right — the 1,800 square-foot garden tucked away in
the Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center is lovely and
serene, a respite from the high-stress, life-or-death struggle being
waged in the medical complex around it.
The garden is surrounded by brown brick walls partly disguised by hedges. There’s a stream with a small waterfall that
winds the length of the garden. In early May, the three-petaled
bright blue perennial knows as spiderwort is blooming, and so is
a soft pink and white azalea. The fine-toothed russet leaves of a
dwarf Japanese maple tree rustled in the breeze.
There are plenty of benches to sit on, and wind chimes, and a
sculpture of a frog reading a book makes visitors smile.
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