Preserve gardens

As a gardener I have viewed the recent series of programmes on the important role of gardens in saving our urban wildlife now and in the future with a mixture of concern and anger.

I have, like many others, made a serious effort to create the correct conditions for wildlife in our garden by providing nest boxes, flowers, berry-bearing trees and a wild area but obviously I need to do more.

The people who should be contacted are those, in my opinion, who have or are converting their gardens into deserts with hard standing in the form of gravel, brick paving slabs or even tarmac, with next to no greenery for wildlife.