Walking with God in the Garden

From a shy Essex schoolboy to the Head Gardener at the National Trust's 120-acre landscape garden of Anglesey Abbey, Richard Todd's life is a vivid tapestry of faith, flowers, and fearless service.

'Walking with God in the Garden' invites you into 44 astonishing years during which prayer charts the garden's paths as surely as any spade or rake.

When a childhood illness should have ended Richard's dream of outdoor work, a dramatic healing redirected his steps-and his heart-to follow Christ wherever the next seed was planted. That seed took root in the historic Abbey Gardens near Cambridge, where Richard and his team were privileged to add adventure and new initiatives into this established historic estate and see it grow into one of Britain's most visited gardens.

You'll stroll beside him as he:

• Is given the privilege to establish the world-famous Winter Garden, painting with bark, berries, and scent when other gardens sleep
• Turns "black gold" compost into award-winning displays of snowdrops and narcissus
• Builds the Hoe Fen Wildlife Area so children of every ability can discover God's creation up close
• Launches dazzling Winter Lights festivals that draw tens of thousands and fund community projects
• Receives the Queen's Honour for Services to Horticulture-then quietly credits every accolade to divine grace

Yet the real harvest lies beneath the blossoms: lessons on listening prayer in staff meetings, finding purpose after surgery, and trusting God's timing from first frost to final bloom. Richard's story will encourage anyone wondering how ordinary work can become extraordinary worship.

If you long to blend vacation with vocation-cultivating beauty, community, and unshakeable hope-this memoir will show you the way, trowel in one hand, Bible in the other.

Step through the garden gate and discover how every season sings of God's faithful care.