The Natural History of a Garden by Colin Spedding, Timber Press, £17.99/$24.95, ISBN 0881925780 Reviewed by Julia Durbin
IN the decade or so that my husband and I have been married, we have argued about many things, but never before about a dustbin lid. Following advice given by Colin Spedding in The Natural History of a Garden, I placed said lid on a piece of rough ground at the end of our urban back garden to see what wildlife would make a home beneath it. My other half was convinced it should remain on the dustbin, but he hadn’t read…
