'This is no damn hobby': the 'gangsta gardener' transforming Los Angeles

Lockdown is an unlikely ally for Ron Finley, who has set about revolutionising attitudes to gardening in inner city areas Read more stories from our wild cities week"The garden seduces me," says Ron Finley, who is known around the world as the "gangsta gardener". "I'll get out there at 9am and next thing I know it's 7pm ... gardening takes your mind off things. Everybody should have a garden to cultivate." English horticulturalists fiddling with well-maintained roses might know the feeling. But for Finley, gardening isn't about producing the perfect floral pom-pom, it's about growing people. Planting is his unusual form of protest, and having a garden stuffed full of beautiful plants and vegetables is a byproduct of that. Continue reading...