EVENING BOOK CLUB is participating in the 2025 Longwood Gardens Community Read of APRIL 7 at 6 PM.
Paradise Under Glass: The Education of an Indoor Gardener by Ruth Kassinger
Anyone reading this selection is welcome to come to the April 7th discussion, and bring your gardening experiences ready to share.

Paradise Under Glass is a witty and absorbing memoir about one woman’s unlikely desire to build, stock, and tend a small conservatory in her suburban Maryland home.
Kassinger found herself in need of a positive path after the death of her sister, her home becoming an empty nest, and her own battle with breast cancer. A resident of Maryland, she visited the conservatory of the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington D.C. and was inspired to add a much smaller-scale conservatory to her home. “It occurred to me that adding a conservatory to our house was just what I needed,” Kassinger says. “Warm and humid, beautiful, ever-green, peaceful and still, a conservatory would be the perfect antidote to the losses and changes of middle age. It would be my personal tropical paradise where nothing unexpected lurked in the landscape.”