Following on from First Time Planting and First Time Garden, this is a guide, for the inexperienced gardener, through the difficult process of taking over an existing garden, especially one which has seen better days. The topics covered include stamping your own personality on a garden, weed-clearing, soil renovation, laying a new lawn, planting trees and renovating rock gardens, pools and ponds, and pergolas. The book assumes no knowledge of gardening and adopts a straightforward and practical approach. It contains a calendar of the gardening year, with explanations of what to do, and when.