Great countries can have their dark moments. Shameful moments. Hidden moments. Weeding the Garden is based on one of these bleak times in the history of the United States, when Mary Helen Epperson, her husband Dill, and their three children become pawns in the eugenics movement. The Eugenics committee's unscrupulous Gertrude Blackburn focuses her eye on fifteen-year-old Flower Epperson. Flower is charming and beautiful, with a halo of blonde hair and sky blue eyes. Her pink cheeks make her the picture of health--but she has a secret handicap. A handicap that makes her unacceptable to a new emerging American society. Gertrude Blackburn is making it her mission to rid the country of people like Flower. People she sees as unproductive. A burden to every able-bodied citizen. When she talks Mary Helen into divulging information about her family in exchange for money, the door to destruction is opened. Mary Helen learns too late Gertude's intent when her children go missing. Her husband...

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