5 Secret Gardens in Melbourne
Photo by Rob Waterhouse.
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.
Melbourne has such secret gardens. Little known places, close to but away from the rush where you can lie on a rug, nose in a book, occasionally glimpsing sky through foliage without too many people stomping on your sandwiches.
To be secret it helps if such gardens have some form of demarcation, walls at best but at least fences, hedges or well defined shrubbery beds that shield you from the outside world.
So let me lead you down the garden path to some of Melbourne's secret gardens.
5 Secret Gardens in Melbourne