As someone who has read the books, they are cozy, funny, and *very* Australian. They are also on Kindle unlimited.

Front yard is native grasses, sedges, and native violets. The back yard has a patch of asters and goldenrods, and we're tearing out the grass this year to put in native wildflowers.
(The non-native trees are from before we started our landscaping project and we don't want to tear them out.)

Less of a "time" issue and more of an "additional targeted intervention" issue.

Less naive and more optimistic ;)

You'd think so, but even after burning out a corner of our property, then digging out everything several inches deep, I *still* had to use herbicide to get rid of bits of the Crown Vetch patch!