Garden sanctuary

Secret Garden, Cliveden August 2012

The concept of the Garden Sanctuary follows on from the popular understanding of a therapeutic "Secret Garden" first imagined by Frances Hodgson Burnett.

• "Since reading The Secret Garden as a child, tucked away botanical places have held a special meaning."
• "The thought that one might be self-contained; hidden from the rest of the world; close to others and yet so deliciously alone.

A Secret Garden, or a Garden Sanctuary

A Secret Garden, or a Garden Sanctuary, may be

• the power of a private garden to heal therapeutically, first popularized by The Secret Garden, the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• Overlying these healing uses is the use of the term My Secret Garden by Nancy Friday in 1973 to open up women's sexual fantasies.

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