Fruit, wildflowers, insects: the people transforming disused land in England

From community allotments to wildlife havens, guerilla gardeners are taking it upon themselves to create meaningful spacesThere was once an overgrown strip of unclaimed land on the coast of Kent by the side of a road, festooned with nondescript low-laying shrubs and peppered with brambles and nettles. It was not likely to have brought cheer to passersby.Then a group of local women got together and planted fruit trees, strawberries, rhubarb, vegetables and lavender, as well as self-seeding flowers and bushes. When they ran out of space, they started planting on the other side of the road. Continue reading...