The Idea of a Garden

Pollan had a section of garden thathe couldn't grow anything in. He tried planting numerous species of plant but nothing would grow. So he stoped to see what naturally grows in the area of his garden and concluded that raspberries would do well. Pollan explains how nature is the true decider of what grows and what doesn't in the quote "The good gardener commonly borrows his methods, if not his goals, from nature herself... in the end she will let us know what does and does not work" (The Idea of a Garden, 609). Sharon White has to abide by these rules in her first garden. "My first garden was tropical. I planted it in my great aunt's back yard in Florida with dust and rocks" (Vanished Gardens, 3) Because her garden was in a tropical location it had to be a tropical garden. Nature dictates what can grow in what places.

Liam Bradley