Back Yard: A Gardening Life

A whimsical collection of musings dedicated to that ultimate suburban icon-the back yard. The garden serves as a backdrop for anecdotes about an eccentric Italian father-in-law, pet blue-tongues, and the joys of trampolines and trikes, as well as the rather more serious subjects of vegetables, lemon trees and companion planting. With chapter titles like "Nineteen Things I Have Learnt About Carrots," "Coping With Chillies," "Very Sexy Veg," and "A Tale of Two Birds Baths," Back Yard is more than a book about gardens and gardening-it will be read and enjoyed by anyone who has ever had a back yard of their own.