The Garden Girls

"In the spirit of Virginia Woolf and Tillie Olsen, The Garden Girls tells the story of one woman's courageous journey toward artistic flowering. Revealed through the writer's real life journal and the letters of the garden girls Laverne Zabielski conjures. The book is at times witty, at times anguishing, at times beguiling."

--Elaine Orr

• Honeyrose, the artist
• Rose, the writer
• Clove, the teacher
• Nettles, the gardener
• Echinacea, the healer
• Gardenia, the poet
• Lily, the silk painter
• Lavender, the philosopher
• Arrtemisia, old, wise, and playful
• Sage, the thinker
• Fuchsia, my sensuous muse
• Wisteria, the child
• Laverne, the mother