Another Splash of the Gin & Tonic Gardener chronicles the next two years in the gardening life of this knowledgeable but irreverent gardener as Wells grapples with creating a low budget gin-and-tonic garden in the old St. John's house she can barely afford to keep up. From her constant scouring of yard sales for perennials, to her aversion to grass and her ongoing battles with rocky soil and an ugly chain-link fence, it appears that Wells is far from cured of her compulsion to garden. She tries to convince herself and her readers otherwise, but even when she leaves her own garden, she can?t resist poking around in other people's.
A firm believer that the best gardens don?t sulk from a little neglect, Wells continues to balance humour and an affinity for the hammock and a good book with her quest for the old-fashioned cottage garden of her dreams. Full of wit and wisdom, tips and trials that transcend time and gardening zones, Janice Wells? garden books will make gardeners everywhere feel good for many years to come.

JANICE WELLS wrote weekly columns for the Halifax Chronicle Herald. Her popular columns, The Gin and Tonic Gardener and Definitely Not Martha offer irreverent observations and advice on coping with modern domestic realities. Her most recent book, Frank Moores, is a political biography of the colourful former premier of Newfoundland who played a pivotal role in the scandal involving former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. She is the author of Definitely Not Martha Stewart, which is a compendium of observations and advice from gardening to the domestic and romantic realities of a "re-single" woman in her fifties. She lives in St. Johns, Newfoundland.

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