Nakedness in the garden

Nakedness in the garden 29th May 2008 9.20am
One wonders what the garden called Eden looked like? Paradise, some call it. But what if the story of Eve and Adam's 'nakedness' was a metaphor and a gardener's attention to the plane tree's loss of bark? And what if the loss of bark was a gardener's signifier of the coming spring and all its possibilities? What if in its nakedness, the tree's new skin was a signpost for when s/he should do certain things that guide one's gardening calculation and preparation? For it is written, (see below) that the,

PLANE TREE - plan'-tre ('armon; platanos (Gen 30:37), elate ("pine" or "fir") (Ezek 31:8); the King James Version chestnut): `Armon is supposed to be derived from the root aram, meaning "to be bare" or "naked"; this is considered a suitable term for the plane, which sheds its bark annually. The chestnut of the King James Version is not an indigenous tree, but the plane (Planus orientalis) is one of the finest trees in Palestine, flourishing especially by water courses (compare Ecclesiasticus 24:14).
(http://net.bible.org/dictionary.php?word=Plane%20tree).