Gardening in Eden: Seasons in a Suburban Garden

Though an old man Thomas Jefferson wrote at Monticello I am but a young gardener. Every gardener is. In Gardening in Eden we enter Arthur Vanderbilts small enchanted world of the garden where the old wooden trestle tables of a roadside nursery are covered in crazy quilts of spring color where a catbird comes to eat raisins from ones hand and a chipmunk demands a daily ration of salted cocktail nuts. We feel the oppressiveness of endless winter days the magic of an old-fashioned snow day the heady healing qualities of wandering through a greenhouse on a frozen February afternoon the restlessness of a gardener waiting for spring. With a sense of wonder and humor on each page Arthur Vanderbilt takes us along with him to discover that for those who wait watch and labor in the garden its all happening right outside our windows.