This book aims to share with readers the basic tools, techniques, and principles of how to create and maintain a beautiful garden through Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Straightforward, no-nonsense language and advice, along with simple photography showing the practicalities of gardening, will advise budding gardeners on how to build their garden from a naked skeleton through to a beautifully garbed wonderland. The book gives us a greater understanding of the part that gardening and nature play in our lives, in our health, and in our general well-being. "[Dowdall] has well-grounded knowledge."-Chicago Botanic Garden