Virgin Earth

As England descends into civil war John Tradescant the Younger gardener to King Charles I finds his loyalties in question his status an ever-growing danger to his family. Fearing royal defeat and determined to avoid serving the rebels John escapes to the royalist colony of Virginia a land bursting with fertility that stirs his passion for botany. Only the native American peoples understand the forest and John is drawn to their way of life just as they come into fatal conflict with the colonial settlers.