"It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place anyone could imagine.

The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.

All the ground was covered with grass of a wintry brown and out of it grew clumps of bushes which were surely rosebushes if they were alive.

There were neither leaves nor roses on them now and Mary did not know whether they were dead or alive, but their thin gray or brown branches and sprays looked like a sort of hazy mantle spreading over everything, walls, and trees, and even brown grass, where they had fallen from their fastenings and run along the ground.

It was this hazy tangle from tree to tree which made it all look so mysterious.

Mary had thought it must be different from other gardens which had not been left all by themselves so long; and indeed it was different from any other place she had ever seen in her life."

– The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The stills are from the 1993 film adaptation of The Secret Garden, directed by Agnieszka Holland.