In The Secret Garden

By: Pamela Leavey On: July 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm

Yesterday was a picture perfect day. I spent some time relaxing in the Secret Garden…

(Photo: In The Secret Garden ~~ © Pamela J. Leavey 2011)

In The Secret Garden

By: Pamela Leavey On: June 30, 2011 at 1:07 pm

Everywhere you look right now gardens in the area are flourishing, including The Secret Garden in Newburyport…

(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011)

In The Secret Garden

By: Pamela Leavey On: June 28, 2011 at 12:08 pm

The bees are hard at work… In The Secret Garden…

(Photo: Peonies In The Secret Garden ~~ c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011)

In The Secret Garden

By: Pamela Leavey On: June 23, 2011 at 2:39 pm

Oh the peonies…

In The Secret Garden

By: Pamela Leavey On: June 17, 2011 at 12:49 pm

In The Secret Garden…
Everywhere you look is a gift…
(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey 2011)

In The Secret Garden

By: Pamela Leavey On: June 16, 2011 at 12:31 pm

My mother had the the most amazing gardens when I was a child. She loved to be outdoors gardening and her labor of love always showed in our yard. That love for gardening is something that was shared among other members of her family and passed down in generations.

The Secret Garden is nestled in Newburyport and it belongs to my cousin who spends each day working in her garden paradise, tending to her perrenials with love and devotion.

When I have the time to visit with my cousin in the Secret Garden, I am transported to a place of peace and always feel a sense of being home. As the love of gardening has been passed down through generations of women in my family, so to have perrenials been passed along and kept blooming for generations. The Secret Garden has iris and peonies that belonged to both my mother and my aunt, even my grandmother.

My mother would tell me as a child that nothing was more important than tending the earth. She knew the connection of our need to treat the Mother [Earth] with love and respect…

(Photo: c. Pamela J. Leavey)