When a woman meets a strange seed salesman one day, she endeavors to create a magnificent—and unexpectedly magical—herb garden.

Following a conversation with a traveling repairman about his life on the road, a woman with a gift for growing flowers grapples with her femininity and her desire for something more than a mundane life as the wife of a farmer.

A man considers his daily life in a strange manner and waits for dusk so that he can see a fantastical city that is only revealed in the dark.

On her missions to Mars, a microbiology botanist attempts to introduce natural life to the planet. However, it is not nature, but love, that begins to take root.

A middle-aged man who runs a landscaping company is introduced to a mentally disabled boy and takes him in as an employee. As he becomes a father figure to the boy, the man confronts his past as an ex-alcoholic and grapples with the guilt of having accidentally run over his own son in a drunk episode 9 years prior.

When a Virginia tree farm gardener learn that his wife is cheating on him, he must postpone the end of their marriage until after his terminally ill father-in-law dies and leaves them both a considerable inheritance.

A farm’s hired craftsman kills an elderly man and is forced to find a new home, lest he draw the attention of the authorities. However, his employer has grown attached to the craftsman, and the craftsman has unfinished business to attend to.

By trampling the grass as he walks the same route over and over to gather clams, an elderly man makes space for a bounty of primroses to flourish, which allows the moths and other pollinators to thrive. When he dies, the roses and moths follow suit.

Two people of color work for a German immigrant in Massachusetts helping him grow and maintain trees, and when he dies years after they've moved on from the work and each other, they reflect on the natural philosophies they learned from him.

When a young man moves in with his pregnant girlfriend's family in the Pacific Northwest, he feels increasingly trapped by his girlfriend's secrets, her brother's drunken behavior, and the demanding land on the family's orchard.