Garden sanctuary

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Secret Garden, Cliveden, August 2012.

Garden sanctuary is a concept that follows on from the popular understanding of the power of a private garden to heal therapeutically, first popularized by The Secret Garden , the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Otherwise, it or "secret garden" may refer to a garden room, a part of a garden enclosed or segregated in some way to form a room-like pace.

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