“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden… But though an old man, I am but a young gardener. ” So wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1811, and if you visit Monticello you’ll undoubtedly get that he meant it. 
And I can’t wait to get these books:
Gardens & Historic Plants of the Antebellum South,
The Brother Gardeners, and Flowers & Herbs of Early America
rabbit trails 
