If you say my name out loud, I sound like a sentry stationed indoors, but I am actually a sunny outdoor plot filled with spring flowers. What place am I?
A garden
'Garden' sounds like 'guard in' (a sentry indoors), while describing a plot of land used for growing flowers.
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