Garden is a cluster of small asteroids linked together by a common atmsopheric envelope and by the roots of a single huge plant. The northmen call the plant Yggdrasil 's Child, while the Shou Lung note in their books that Garden is a live-world, not a cluster of earth bodies. Garden is used by a number of races as a place to restock food, water, and air. It is also a pirate haven, as the mazework of passages foils many large pursuing ships.