Dream Garden.............

What would your dream garden be like? I think about that sometimes. Mine would be something on the order of The Secret Garden. I like to think of a nice stone wall surrounding it with a gate. A gate with roses growing up it, a very old gate.


My gate would of course open into a meadow. Within the garden itself would be a rose garden, not a formal rose garden but climbing roses. Climbing over the stone walls and terraces.

I love pink roses...........'

The garden would have secret places, places to sit unseen and read a book and listen to the birds. It would have very old stones and old mossy troughs of water for the animals that would come and visit. It would have barrels with water for frogs and birds to sip from.


There would be old steps going up into higher places and down into shadowy pathways.


There would be winding paths through high flowering bushes and into secret corners where one may find a swing on a big old tree hidden from view.




There would be hidden pools to sit and watch the goldfish and dangle fingers in



There would be formal walks with vines and terraces for the evening strolls at twilight and the divine scents of the flowers

I love the very old rocks with moss and flowers draping down from them. The feel of those ancients under the hand, cold and damp but with such a memory as we can never imagine. They saw the beginning of time they did........and maybe if one closes the eyes and open the mind we may just get a glimpse of that.


quiet places to just sit and be quiet.



(Thanks to all the photographers whose pictures I have borrowed)

I am linking this with A Delightful Life