This handbook demonstrates how you can create or maintain a beautiful garden, large or small, even if you are only able - or only want - to work on it for short periods of time. Anne Swithinbank discusses how to plan and use time in the garden most effectively, where to direct effort for best results and how essential work can be fitted into easy half-hour timeslots. She also describes 20 creative garden projects (such as making a small herb garden, creating a colourful border or planting a container), none of which takes more than 30 minutes. The book also includes a catalogue of over 100 best-value decorative plants that largely look after themselves.