Garden of Eden

Yup, once again I realized something I never thought about before.
When someone says "The Garden of Eden" what do you think about?  Is the garden Eden?  Is Eden all garden?  I always equated Eden with the Garden.  I always thought about the garden named Eden.

Well, consider this,  Genesis 2:8

The LORD God planted a garden toward the east, in Eden

I read that as the garden being planted in the East of Eden.   Wow, makes me wonder how the rest of Eden is.  Hmmm.   Once again, this isn't critical to our lives or theology but it certainly made me realize that all of Eden wasn't likely a garden.  I'm sure it was beautiful but was it a garden?

In Genesis 2:5 it says

Now no shrub of the field was yet in the earth, and no plant of the field had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not sent rain upon the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground.

So that means that there were no plants yet.  After God put in the garden, was the rest rock?  Dirt?

In Genesis 2:6 and 2:7, God caused a mist to water the land and created man. In verse 8 He plants the garden and puts the man there.

After that, in verse 9 He caused all kinds of plants to sprout from the ground.  In the midst of garden He puts the two trees.   Can you picture it?