The Garden: Perennial Reflections On Beginnings and Ends

THE GARDEN PRECEEDS EVERYTHING HUMAN.

The Garden of Eden is the ideal literary setting for a woman and a man. Of course, it is said that the Word was made Flesh; so, it seems appropriate that Charles Frode’s Garden book would at this moment be in your human hands, where all gardening and gardens start.

These metaphorical, spiritual, and human reflections on gardening illuminate how the garden clarifies our understanding of reality, our understanding of the elusive experience we call spirituality, and our understanding of who and how we are as men and women.

We are living creatures who long, lose, and love deeply, creatures who ultimately, like the garden, pass away back into The Original Source. Rich with Frode’s photos of gardens and gardening, this is a practical book of gardening advice for planting and growing a garden, and also for living and relinquishing life in its time.

It is also a love story, as you may soon notice.

Frode and his wife share their memories of the houses they have lived in by recalling many special garden areas, the flowers, mini-gardens, trees, vegetables, herbs and fruit they grew and grow there. What a wonderful focal point of discussion between two loving garden mates? Every year the garden is renewed, and in those renewals, their relationship grows deeper, simpler, and more beautiful. And the garden is planted again and renewed. And so this book

Read about garden mumbo-jumbo, Chapter 6.