Grasping The Nettle : Tales from a Modern Country Gardener

"Grasping the Nettle: Tales from a Modern Country Gardener" is Tamsin Westhorpe's funny, warm-hearted memoir of life as a professional gardener, written by someone who, in her own words, keeps mud permanently under her fingernails.

Drawing on years spent running a garden centre and offering horticultural advice, including stints on television, Westhorpe shares entertaining anecdotes about eccentric customers, unusual neighbours, and the realities of professional garden and landscape maintenance that rarely make it into glossy gardening manuals.

It's a lighthearted, anecdotal read for anyone who loves gardens, or who has ever wondered what really goes on behind the scenes of the horticultural trade.