The Twilight Garden: A guide to Enjoying Your Garden in the Evening Hours

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Full of easy maintenance advice, planting ideas for evening fragrance, colour, lighting, design, and attracting wildlife, this is a book for how people garden now which will inspire everyone to transform their outdoor space into a twilight paradise. Some say that the twilight hours are the best time to enjoy a garden; a time when the spirit of the place really comes alive. It is also the time when many people pass front gardens on their return home, have a few spare minutes for garden maintenance, or want to enjoy the garden for entertaining. Full of easy maintenance advice, planting ideas for evening fragrance, colour, lighting, design, and attracting wildlife, this is a book for how people garden now. Front gardens, terraces, larger plots and containers will all be covered in an attempt to inspire everyone to transform their outdoor space into a twilight paradise.

Gardening writer Lia Leendertz has a gardening column in the Guardian's Weekend magazine. She is a frequent contributor to Gardens Illustrated, and studied horticulture at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh. Her books include Gardening SOS: Your Problems Solved, The Half-hour Allotment, The Allotment Notebook, Indoor Plants, Family Garden and Conservatory and Greenhouse Gardening. She also writes a gardening blog, 'Midnight brambling'.