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What kind of garden was the garden of Eden?

There are so many kinds of gardens. What kind was the garden of Eden? Was it a flower garden? A vegetable garden? An English country garden? A French garden? A Chinese garden? A kaiyu-shiki? Did it have an orangery? What was the layout? There sure were a lot of trees. Are we sure it wasn't an orchard?

Public Comments

1. A Zen garden. Adam and Eve had to drag those rakes along the sand all day and night. No wonder they got bored and ate that fruit.
2. It wasn't physical...it was on the etheric plane. It was "guarded" or protected by being under the will of God.
3. It was an Olive Garden. They came for the fruit but couldn't stay for the company.
4. Stress free because stress kills.
5. The word Eden actually means "Pleasure".  A pleasureable place, in which the Creator planted a gardenlike park as the original home of the first human pair. The statement that the garden was “in Eden, toward the east,” apparently indicates that the garden occupied only a portion of the region called Eden. (Ge 2:8) Genesis 2:15 states that “God proceeded to take the man and settle him in the garden of Eden.” While this might appear to indicate that man’s creation took place outside the garden, it may simply refer to God’s ‘taking’ man in the sense of his forming and creating him from the earthly elements, then assigning him to reside initially in the garden in which he came to life. The cultivation and care of the garden was man’s work assignment. Eden’s trees and plants included all those providing scenic beauty as well as those providing food in wide variety. (Ge 2:9, 15) This fact alone would indicate that the garden covered an area of considerable size. There was a great variety of animal life in the garden. God brought before Adam “all the domestic animals and . . . flying creatures of the heavens and . . . every wild beast of the field,” the naming of which was given to Adam as one of his earliest tasks. (Ge 2:19, 20) Eden’s soil was watered by the waters of the river “issuing out of Eden.” (Ge 2:10) In view of man’s nakedness it may be assumed that the climate was very mild and agreeable.—Ge 2:25.
6. Imaginary.