This book is about gardening and conservation of the countryside, the trends that shaped and changed them. It is also a personal tribute to the authors family and friends who she feels helped nurture this interest. She hopes this book portrays not only a love for gardening and for our living environment, but more importantly the spirit of our ancestors, who left us all with a green-fingered legacy.
The book includes many interesting aspect of gardening and the countryside. It is enthused with personal accounts of various peopleÕs gardens. It journeys into the past to look at natural history, art and those ancestors that inspired our creativeness in the garden. In the book, the author looks at how her own interests in gardening and the countryside evolved. Growing up as a child in the nineteen forties in Hertfordshire, England, through education, work and joining as a conservation volunteer with a local wildlife trust.