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**Similarly to Mary's cat, Dickon has a whole slew of animal friends not present in the book.
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*GratuitousEnglish: In the opening of the original Japanese version, the title is written in English, "The Secret Garden", rather than in Japanese.
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*ComingOfAgeStory: Of Mary realizing that her upbringing was actually not normal and that she has a lot of work to do to change as a person, as well as breaking the cycle of her BigScrewedUpFamily.
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* FlowersOfFemininity: Gender-inverted with Dickon, who's a boy but loves flowers and gardening. Mary also loves flowers and has a rose motif.
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**It also has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG8dkDub3_s Spanish one]] that aired in Mexico.
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*AnimatedAdaptation: Of an English novel written 80 years earlier; ''Literature/TheSecretGarden'' by Creator/FrancesHodgsonBurnett.
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* AdaptationExpansion: Some minor details of Mary's life are expanded on here, such as her birthday being January 6.
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* AdaptationExpansion: The anime series runs through 39 episodes, so it has to stretch the story quite a bit: more emphasis is put on Mary's initial difficulties to adapt herself to the mansion[[note]] she has a ''very'' tearful HeroicBSOD after meeting Archibald and mistakenly believing he doesn't care about her person[[/note]], the rest of the Sowerby family is given more spotlight, Colin ''is'' actually ill rather than spoiled and hypochondriac, some {{canon foreigner}}s join the cast and turn out to be ''vital'' to the last parts of the story. Some minor details of Mary's life are also expanded on here, such as her birthday being January 6.
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* BritainIsOnlyEngland: Averted. While most of the anime focuses on England, it also mentions various other British territories.
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* BritainIsOnlyEngland: Averted. While most of the anime focuses on England, it also mentions various other British territories. However, it is set in England, specifically Yorkshire.
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* CaringGardener: Ben at first, but gradually all three of the main characters become this. [[spoiler: And in the end, Archibald becomes one too]].
*DownerBeginning: We don't see it since it's mentioned by other characters, but Mary's parents have just died, and she has to leave her old home to live with her remaining relatives.
*FollowTheWhiteRabbit: A little robin leads Mary to a key buried in the soil, which unlocks the door to the garden.
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* GreenThumb: All over the place - Ben and Dickon have this naturally, while Mary and Colin adopt this as part of their CharacterDevelopment.
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*PublicDomainCharacter: The novel is in the public domain since it was published before copyright laws. The anime features them, alongside some {{Canon Foreigner}}s.
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*WoodlandCreatures: Outside of the titular garden, Dickon also befriends the forest's deers, sheep, squirrels and all sorts of birds.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Mary's friends include a pink cat and purple squirrels.
* TheBeautifulElite: Mary's parents were wealthy and would often wear {{Gorgeous Period Dress}}es. Their hobbies were throwing parties to socialize with their fellow elite.
* BigFancyHouse: The Craven mansion is a large, castle-like building with a beautiful garden.
* TheBeautifulElite: Mary's parents were wealthy and would often wear {{Gorgeous Period Dress}}es. Their hobbies were throwing parties to socialize with their fellow elite.
* BigFancyHouse: The Craven mansion is a large, castle-like building with a beautiful garden.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Mary's friends include a pink cat cat, a blue crow, and purple squirrels.
* TheBeautifulElite: Mary's parents were wealthy *AngryMob: The racist English villagers that blame Camila for Lilias Craven's death. At one point they surround her house, ready to burn it down, until Mary rushes to defend her and would often wear {{Gorgeous Period Dress}}es. Their hobbies were throwing parties stands in front of it to socialize with their fellow elite.
* BigFancyHouse: The Craven mansionbar them. This manages to slow them for some time, until Susan Sowerby also comes forwards and asserts that Camila is a large, castle-like building with a beautiful garden.innocent.
* BigFancyHouse: The Craven mansion
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* FriendToAllLivingThings: As Mary, Colin and Dickon spend more time in the garden, they become closer to it's various flora and fauna. Helping matters is that Dickon is TheSmartGuy when it comes to gardening.
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* GorgeousPeriodDress: Lilias Craven often dressed lavishly, as expected of a rich lady. However, she was also SpoiledSweet and treated her servants with utmost kindness.
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* NatureLover: Dickon has a GreenThumb and is a friend to all animals, and he ropes Mary into becoming this too.
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*PrivateTutor: Mr. Craven hires a tutor for Mary Lennox after she moves to Yorkshire, England, with Mrs. Medlock also acting as a substitute educator. Mary tries to question her about the garden, but gets little to no answers.
