Rhapsody in Green: A Novelist, an Obsession, a Laughably Small Excuse for a Garden

‘Read Rhapsody in Green. A novelist’s beautiful, useful essays about her tiny garden.’ – India Knight ‘A witty account of ‘extreme allotmenteering’ for all obsessive gardeners’ – Mail on Sunday ‘An extremely entertaining and inspiring story of one woman’s passionate transformation of a small, irregular shaped urban garden into a bountiful source of food.’ – Woman & Home ‘A gardening book like no other, this is the author’s ‘love letter’ to her garden. She relays warm and witty stories about the trials and tribulations throughout her gardening year.’ – Garden News ‘…this inspirational, funny book, written by someone who hankers after a homesteader’s lifestyle, will make you look at even your window box in a new, more productive light.’ – The Simple Things Despite the fact that she has only six square metres of grotty urban soil and a few pots, Charlotte Mendelson has a secret life. She is an extreme gardener, an obsessive, an addict. And like all addicts, she wants to spread the joy. Beginning with Late Winter, Charlotte takes the reader through her gardening year, via Wasting Money Wisely (the lure of the seed packet), Thirty-Three Alternatives to Lettuce (the greatest salads don’t need bacon or croutons), Tree Envy (dreams of owning a plum tree), and Fantasy (gardening is an unfulfilled fantasy, never disappointing and always a source of perfect, fruitful happiness).