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Since reading the children's book "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett, haven't you desired your own secret garden? Perhaps its your vision of Paradise on earth. Perhaps your secret garden comes with nice big bushes of Common Box or English Box, some honeysuckle or rose covered arbor with a nice comfortable teak seat to spend many lazy summer afternoons without leaving the confines of the home garden.

Surely contemporary Garden design has a myriad of ways to hardscape and plant you secret garden with shrubs, vines, and trees, and to accessorize with contemporary garden decor and objects.

Perhaps your secret garden lies under some venerable old oak or under a clump of birches - maybe it has a number of bulbs like in the book where hope springs eternal and when warm days brightened up the winterish sky. Maybe it is clothed in vines of ivy, grape, trumpet creeper, or if it is in a tropical climate with vines of Bougainvillea situated in the midst of those magical looking roots of ficus.

For in your own secret garden you have found a place to discuss the problems of the world with a spouse, perhaps not anything so grand in the scheme of things, perhaps a place to teach Rover some new tricks, or more picturesque yet - a place for baby to take his first steps, or just a place to get away from it all. For you secret garden will become a classic to while away the ages. and a place for the friends and neighbors to gather.

My name is August and I am a baby boomer. I retired 4 years ago. I enjoy gardening, reading, and studying finance and investments.

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