We all inevitably romanticize wildlife, but all creatures — even those we consider useless — are part of the interconnected web of life.

Every gardener knows very well that a garden is not only flower beds, digging and collecting well-deserved crops. At the same time, the garden is a bit of a wilderness, in which we can observe animals and plants, whether we as gardeners enjoy their presence or not. In the book My Garden World, popular British gardener Monty Don summarizes decades of daily observations. In short chapters, he takes the reader through his garden in the English county of Herefordshire and introduces them to its visitors from the animal and plant kingdoms. Stories about the nuthatch, wild rose, shrew, hornet, snipe, woodcock, hawks, fox, fox, but also about ticks — all accompanied by the author's photographs — will take us through the entire calendar year. The book is not a gardening manual, but rather a personal poetic narrative that makes us realize that the natural world is all around us, wherever we are.