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Why was Epicurus’s school called the Garden?

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Bronze bust of Epicurus with a full beard and draped clothing, displayed on a round inscribed base at the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. — Epicureanism Epicurus, bronze bust from a Greek original, c. 280–270 bce; in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples.

Epicurus’s school was called The Garden (known in Greek as Ho Kepos) simply because he established the school within the garden of the house he purchased upon arriving in Athens in 306 BCE.12