In her new book, The Joy of Gardening, Lynda Hallinan recalls how it nearly didn’t happen to her — the joy of gardening, that is. Words: Lynda Hallinan Photos: Sally Tagg At the end of 2020, I gave my garden a thoroughly good soak, shoveled out a truckload of mulch, dead-headed the dahlias and rabbit-fenced my new rose garden. Then I locked the front gate behind me and took my family to the beach for a month. For the first time in many years, I had decided not to open my country garden at Foggydale Farm, in the foothills of