Poppy never imagined she'd move to the English countryside and fall in love with a smug, demanding, ginger-haired male. Of course, that's before she discovers that she's inherited a cottage garden nursery and before she meets a certain talkative orange cat named Oren. Now she's embracing a new life filled with rambling roses, scented herbs, warm summer days… and weeds (lots of weeds), as she attempts to restore the neglected cottage garden to its former glory.

When she lands her first gardening job at a beautiful country house, Poppy is delighted to earn some much-needed money. But she barely sets foot in the flower bed before the meddling next-door neighbour drops dead—murdered by a lethal poison. Before she knows it, Poppy is busy weeding out suspects, helped by whacky old inventor Bertie and his feisty terrier, Einstein, plus a whole host of nosy villagers… not to mention Nick Forrest, the maverick crime author.

But with her clients' flowerbed mysteriously dying and red herrings at every turn, Poppy soon discovers that neither gardening nor sleuthing are as simple as she thinks…