Third in the Life in the Garden Series. Sequel to regional best seller, Time in a Garden,and Garden of Eve. "Love grows from tender shoots,rooted deep in the rich soil of human experience." Northern Michigan garden writer, Eve Brennerman,has known both love and unthinkable loss. Even as she makes a pact with herself to rediscover life at its fullest, what she learns about love and its opposite will shake her idyllic rural Eden to its foundations. Tender Stem is a love song to the power of rediscovering what grounds us...whatever our age or stage in life. As Eve writes, "I have got to believe we are never too old to learn."