Description

Garden Tales contains the novella, Girl at Longwood, and two short stories, Sox and Wind’s Dream. 

GIRL AT LONGWOOD

In the novella Girl at Longwood, a boy and girl, strangers and just thirteen, have plant-addicted parents. Just entering puberty, neither is interested in nor comfortable with the opposite sex. But they have something in common — they both hate gardening. A chance meeting at Pennsylvania’s Longwood Gardens, while hiding from their parents, is the beginning of a tentative on-again, off-again relationship.

SOX

In Sox, a small boy, who’s discovered the magic that can happen in a garden, wants to learn as much as he can about gardening. And he wants to learn from Sox, a huge, mysterious man with a glorious garden. But Sox wants nothing to do with children, and he harbors a secret too terrible to share. Sox and the boy become an odd couple whose friendship may flourish or disappear. 

WIND’S DREAM

Wind’s Dream is about a strong-willed woman who’s part of a group Stone Age hunter-gatherers living thousands of years in the past. The folk, as they call themselves, are dying out. Because of a drought, rivers are dry, plants are withered, and animals are scarce. In a story that may have been repeated many times during the Stone Age, Wind and her folk face extinction unless something can be done…now. 

     Art Wolk is an award-winning garden writer, lecturer, and photographer who communicates the innate humor and joy of gardening in all his publications. He’s won the Garden Writers Association Quill and Trowel Award and is a two-time winner of the Philadelphia Flower Show’s Grand Sweepstakes Award. Wolk has appeared on the Discovery Channel, CBS, FOX, and the Home and Garden TV Network.

The Garden Tales cover was designed and illustrated by famed artist Wendell Minor.

Garden Tales is the perfect gift to give yourself or the gardener in your life. What are you waiting for?