How does your garden grow?
(Extra)ordinary gardeners explain why they love their gardens. If you would like to see your garden featured, please send a picture of you and a few lines about your garden to
gardens@theguardian.comMe and my garden: ‘At 5am, I go to the temple to chant. It’s how I get ready to work’
Bhakti Vinode, head gardener at Krishna Eco Farm in Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire, on past lives and plants with souls
Me and my garden: ‘The towering silver fir was planted in the 19th century’
Jane Hasell-McCosh, gardener at Dalemain country house, on gardening with children and her family’s link to Captain Cook
Me and my garden: ‘We’ve got nine plots now and it’s a proper charity’
Warren Carter, Moulsecoomb Forest Garden, Brighton
Me and my garden: ‘For clients I’m conscious of design, but at home I cram plants in’
Razvan Chisu, horticulturist, Barthomley, Cheshire
Me and my garden: ‘It’s a treasure to be shared. In summer we have parties of over 500 people’
Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool, on the joys of hard labour, his first beehive and his stained-glass shed
Me and my garden: ‘I want to live on the first road to have a hedgehog box in every garden’
Stuntman Wayne de Strete on why he loves nothing more than sitting by his garden pond in Brighton, watching and listening to the local wildlife
Me and my garden: ‘I get very emotional about plants’
Roy Lancaster, plantsman, Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire
Me and my garden: ‘When we first visited, I couldn’t see the kitchen garden but was desperate to have it’
Rosie Bose, nurserywoman, Kettering, Northants
Me and my garden: ‘Slugs, you are thugs. Come here and you’re gonna get chewed up’
Why former boy band member Abz Love has swapped parties for plants and a pond
Me and my garden: ‘I’ve got this green chilli from Bangladesh. I don’t know its name – but wow, it’s hot’
Shaish Alam, restaurateur, Newcastle Emlyn, West Wales
Me and my garden: ‘My ultimate plot would have a muddy island for flamingos’
Arthur Parkinson, pottery gardener, Stoke-on-Trent
Me and my garden: ‘We planted a rose garden with our daughter’s ashes’
Eileen Reece, Tring, Hertfordshire
Me and my garden: ‘It is our cat’s jungle’
Jennifer Lee, potter, south London
Me and my garden: ‘I grew my first apple tree when I was 12’
Hazera Forth on her urban Bedford garden, foraging and keeping chickens
Me and my garden: ‘I quit the rock’n’roll life to spread the grow-your-own message’
Rachel Rogers, schools gardener in Liverpool, on planting with children (and the big spiders in the shed)
Me and my garden: ‘We had six weeks to turn a dog toilet into a community garden’
Carole Wright is an urban beekeeper and gardener in south London
Me and my garden: ‘I hope my son will appreciate the wisdom nature has to offer’
Randy Mayers on his garden near Totnes in Devon
Me and my garden: ‘There’s no reason why someone in a wheelchair cannot design beautiful gardens’
Garden designer Mark Lane on his plot in Canterbury, Kent
Me and my garden: ‘The developers like having us here’
Sarah Marshall, Grove Community Garden, Edinburgh
Me and my garden: 'It’s like paradise, surrounded by beautiful buildings and overlooking Christ Church meadow'
David Leake on looking after the plot at Corpus Christi college, Oxford
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