The In the Garden Trilogy by Nora Roberts
As Heard on The Daily Gardener Podcast:
The In the Garden Trilogy by Nora Roberts
This trilogy of novels is set on an old estate nursery in Tennessee and unfolds across three books: Blue Dahlia, Black Rose, and Red Lily.
The story centers on greenhouses, propagation benches, and generations of women who have learned to work the land together. There is also a ghost, because gardens remember what buildings alone cannot hold.
These books explore love and loss, inheritance and repair, and the long emotional life of gardens. They are especially well-suited to winter reading, best enjoyed slowly, with time to linger.