# The Abbey Garden

> From the Curse of Strahd game wiki (it covers the whole game, spoilers included): https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-abbey-garden.html. Unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy, not approved or endorsed by Wizards of the Coast.

> [!infobox]
> ![loc abbey of st markovia garden 1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-abbey-of-st-markovia-garden-1.webp)
> **Region:** [The Abbey of St. Markovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/regions/the-abbey-of-st-markovia.md) · level 7
> **Resting:** Risky
> **Light:** dim, outdoors
> **Getting here:** [The Abbey of St. Markovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-abbey-of-st-markovia.md)

## Overview

The abbey's walled kitchen garden, gone to frost: raised beds of black stalks, a tool shed, the nuns' little graveyard in the corner, and a row of scarecrows along the north wall that the Abbot stitched himself.

**Resting:** Risky: a rest here can be interrupted.

![loc abbey of st markovia garden overview](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-abbey-of-st-markovia-garden-overview.webp)
*The whole place from above.*

## Getting here

### Ways in

- **From [The Abbey of St. Markovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-abbey-of-st-markovia.md):** The walled garden

### Ways out

| # | Exit | Leads to | Only when |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Back to the courtyard | [The Abbey of St. Markovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-abbey-of-st-markovia.md) |  |
| 2 | Back to the courtyard | [The Abbey of St. Markovia](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-abbey-of-st-markovia.md) |  |

## Map

![abbey of st markovia garden](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/maps/abbey-of-st-markovia-garden.svg)

**Key:** gold, people; red, containers; purple, hidden finds; teal, skill checks; white, exits; orange, traps. The numbers match the lists on this page.

### Close up

![loc abbey of st markovia garden spot1](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-abbey-of-st-markovia-garden-spot1.webp)
*the tool shed, a pouch hidden in the tool shed*

![loc abbey of st markovia garden spot2](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-abbey-of-st-markovia-garden-spot2.webp)
*a scarecrow with a stitched mouth*

![loc abbey of st markovia garden spot3](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/shots/loc-abbey-of-st-markovia-garden-spot3.webp)
*the nuns' graves, something buried at the foot of the last grave*

## What to find

| # | Where | What | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | the tool shed | [Sickle](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#sickle), [Shovel](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#shovel), [Rope](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#rope), [Sack](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#sack) ×2 | open it |
| 5 | a pouch hidden in the tool shed (hidden) | [Bag of Beans](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/magic-items.md#bag-of-beans) | Search: Investigation DC 13 |
| 6 | something buried at the foot of the last grave (hidden) | [Holy Water](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/equipment.md#holy-water) | Search: Perception DC 13 |

**Tarokka treasure spots.** If the reading hid one of the treasures here, it's in: Abbey of St Markovia Garden ()

The containers here also get random magic items and potions, rolled for a party of level 7 the first time you come ([Random Treasure](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/items/random-treasure.md)). Hidden finds need a Search (F) nearby; the party's best roll counts.

### Skill checks

| # | Where | Check | Try | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | a scarecrow with a stitched mouth | Arcana 15 | Unpick the scarecrows' binding | abbey scarecrows unbound |

## Fights

- *The scarecrows turn their sacking heads all together, with a noise like dry leaves, and climb down off their…*, in [The Abbey Garden](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/the-abbey-garden.md): [Scarecrow](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/bestiary/scarecrow.md).