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New to us home 3 summers ago. Way way too much grass that we Spent the first whole summer getting rid of so we could finally have our meadow wildflower garden and some beautiful beds. Second Spring and summer we began to pick out flowers and shrubs; shopped for them & planted a few trees for shade but we had no rhyme no reason and no real plan and it quickly became obvious to us we were out of our depth and not really happy with how things were turning out. Did I mention we are retirement age and we also quickly realized that this was turning out to be way more work than we had expected it to be; just maintaining it and really just watering it which took hours sometimes twice a day. I bought hundreds of dollars worth of books -books on perennials books on annuals books on rock gardens books on shrubs books on every kind of flower possible. Lots of them have beautiful gorgeous pictures of flowers in them and I wanted them all but I knew that that was crazy. But I would go to the store or the garden center and I would see flowers that I fell in love with and I’d have to bring them home - still no rhyme no reason and no plan. Then a week ago I came across this book and I am so happy that I did I feel like the author of this book knows me knows my yard knows my husband and she is writing this book just to us a letter to us a manual to us a guide to us suggestions for us- questions to ask ourselves and thoughts to ponder about our garden & the hopes and the dreams we had for it. The book is funny she is just a wonderful gardener and it is a wonderful book just to read it for the things that she says about her gardens. I am enjoying this book so much and it has helped me immensely to make decisions to go out and look at my garden my very new garden and see where I’ve made mistakes where I put things in bad places where they don’t belong where I could move stuff and honestly there’s some things I’m going to be getting rid of actually giving them away to a neighbor because they just don’t fit in where I thought they would. Some of them are new some of them are things that are less than a year old & I should never have bought them. They don’t belong in my garden they don’t belong where I thought they would go. And this book is showing me how I can have a garden that I can enjoy that I can actually sit down in with a cuppa tea and relax. We have not been able to do that yet and we’re on our third summer here. all we do right now is work work work water water water & repeat. Oh and argue about silly garden stuff cause we are always so tried and short tempered. So thank you so much for writing this book for putting this book out there for making me laugh for opening my eyes showing me it was OK to get rid of some of the mistakes andto not feel guilty about doing that. Again thank you so much this book it’s worth more than any of the other books that I purchased in terms of practical ideas. I have a lovely gardening library I have some very very beautiful coffee table books and I still love looking at them still love looking at the gorgeous pictures but this book this book is a practical down to earth book that actually makes sense in a practical world for people like me who are getting older or downsizing and want to be able to sit back and enjoy their garden not just toil in it-hour after hour after hour. Thank you to the author for a wonderful book I love it. I think you will too. I Laughed out loud in some places because I could immediately identify with some of the things that she said. Get it you’ll enjoy it it’ll help.