Paradise under Glass: An Amateur Creates a Conservatory Garden

"A sumptuously written history of greenhouse horticulture" as well as a memoir of one woman's quest to build an indoor garden (Entertainment Weekly).

In the wake of her sister's death and her children's departure for college, baby boomer and journalist Ruth Kassinger found herself with time on her hands—and a lone, struggling houseplant at the top of her basement stairs. One cold, gray evening, flooded with thoughts of middle age, change, and loss, Kassinger wandered into the U.S. Botanic Ga...