Friday 5 June 2009

Urban memories


Another garden I felt an affinity with at the Future Gardens centre in Chiswell Green, St Albans, was Andy Sturgeon's Urban Greening (above), "a response to the loss of green spaces in our cities". For me, it brought back memories of places I used to play as a youth, particularly around the disused gasworks. Like this garden, nature was in the process of reclaiming the landscape and the rusting manmade structures stood as tombstones to the lost industry.

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