What is the importance of the garden to Mr. Geronimo in the novel, Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights?

The vision for a garden gives Mr Geronimo’s life meaning, he uses it to express his dreams and lives by the philosophy that one must cultivate one’s garden. Which is to say that one should focus on oneself and the things within reach to have an impact, that the simple things are enough. The garden of La Incoerenza is one of the most important things in Geronimo’s life, and he often imagined himself as a plant being cared for by Ella.