the backyard parables by margaret roachIT’S GOT A WHOLE THRIVING GARDEN INSIDE, but you never have to water it. Yes, it includes weeds — but (magic!) they’ll never spread outside its covers. It’s my latest book, “The Backyard Parables,” and for the price of a jumbo perennial, it could be yours today. That’s right: I’m suggesting you skip your next plant or two and buy the book instead — the perfect companion to my garden website, and to your garden. Here’s why I ask right now:

It’s six months since “The Backyard Parables” was published. (Happy half-birthday, little book.)

In that same six months, half a million different people (yes!) have visited A Way to Garden dot com. But I haven’t sold each one a book — yet!

Marketing gurus would say that’s partly because I don’t ask you often enough, clearly enough, loudly enough. I don’t like to be a pest (let’s leave that role to the woodchucks and Japanese beetles and cabbage worms). But I’m so proud of the book, and want you to have a copy.

If you like what you see on A Way to Garden, I know you’ll enjoy “The Backyard Parables” — the book “Eat, Pray, Love” author Liz Gilbert called “a blessing” when she read it, and wrote her glowing cover recommendation.

Thank you for all your enthusiasm and support. Need more information?