The concept is definitely intriguing, especially as it can be taken so many ways. Does this talk about a lover, or perhaps a past garden the narrator has? It has feelings of a loss, something that is beautiful in it's own right. Take this a reminder to work on this thread, it's not too late yet. You can do it!
Edna began to feel like one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul. — Kate Chopin, The Awakening