Secret Garden

 

     This is our new house.  Not only am I super-excited to live in my own space, but I am really looking forward to starting my very own secret garden.  As a child, one of my favorite books was The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett.  The story is about two little children who live in a sprawling estate with a crotchety old man who has boarded up most of the rooms.  Mary, one of the main characters, learns of the existence of a secret garden that was once well-cared for by the now deceased mistress of the estate.  She eventually discovers the door to the garden and begins caring for it and bringing all of the plants and flowers back to life.
 
     Anyway, this idea of a having a private, beautiful garden has stuck with me over the years and now that we are buying our own home with a pretty big backyard, we have decided that we should start planting stuff.  So, we went to Lowe's and bought a little greenhouse and some seed packets so that we can start a vegetable garden.

  

And, after just one week, we have broccoli!!

Now, what I imagine is, is that it will eventually look like is this:

 

 ........That's me in the flowing white dress.........

Well, ok, this is actually me:

     We move into the house in May and that is when we will transfer our tiny plants to the backyard.  It's totally waiting for a secret garden, don't you think? 

   

There probably won't be room for gigantic, ivy-covered, marble archways and I probably won't be running around the yard in that dress.  Although, I may wear this one:

And, I really wish that I could replace that bush with a little tree surrounded by lush rows of lavender--like this:

But, truthfully, I will be perfectly happy with a small vegetable garden, maybe a Japanese Maple tree, and some lavender plants--possibly a hydrangea or two.  Oh, and maybe a little pond with some koi fish and hopefully a unicorn.  A girl can dream, can't she?