The Secret Garden

As a little girl I lived in an imaginative world of make-believe friends, fairies and happily ever afters. With my nose constantly buried in a book, I had little reason to believe that the world was anything but that Garden of Eden God created so long ago. One of my absolute favorites, and still is to this day in fact, is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

The story is about an unhappy little girl named Mary whose parents are killed in an earthquake and is sent to live with an long-lost uncle in England {or some fabulous european country}. Unable to communicate her heartache, Mary takes refuge in a garden, a secret garden that has been locked up and hidden away from the world. Only her equally as heartbroken uncle knows the miracle of the garden.

Yesterday I took some time to admire the miracles of a rose garden here in Kansas. In my opinion, this little garden is the best kept secret in Topeka and one that I intend to go and admire again and again.

“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…”It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”

“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done–then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.”

“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it is like or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I am going to try and experiment.”

“She made herself stronger by fighting with the wind.”

“Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.”

I hope you enjoyed these lovely florals as much as I do. Every now and then getting lost in a fairy tale world isn’t all that bad. Because as Mary from The Secret Garden would say, “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

-Kate