Gardens I really love you, you clean the air I breathe, you cool down summer heat, you provide a beautiful textural changing landscape through the seasons. Your colours, shapes and forms, stunning patterns and the birds you attract contribute a huge positive calming force into my life.

I hope for more gardens, less concrete, more flowers less bitumen, more trees less paving.

My article is out now in Sanctuary Issue 74, called ‘All About Habitat’. Photos by Martina Gemmola