This comprehensive work contains professional advice from Sue Tasker, Head Gardener at Brockhole, the Lake District Visitor Centre in Windermere, Cumbria. It covers everything from weeding to wildlife, tree care to topiary, and pruning to potting with month-by-month suggestions for rewarding work in the garden. The book is illustrated with numerous colour photographs taken by the author, along with the line drawings of Lakeland artist, Christine Isherwood.