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Garden Week Six - Children's Garden at Winterthur

What a delightful place this must be for young children or for old men, ahem, who still think a bit like a child. The Children's Garden is full of secret little spaces, toadstools to sit on, a nest to climb in, swings, and bridges. But the centerpiece is a wonderful, imaginative stone cottage with all sorts of play activities, tiny nooks, gnome-sized doors, and high thrones to rule from. All surrounded by enough plants to make the "hundred acre wood" come alive in the minds of A. A. Milne's generations of readers. If you have a child of elementary age, this is a place where real imagination is unfettered. And not a mouse in sight.

May I pour?