We believe that a garden, whether large or small, public or private, can fulfil a number of purposes:

• Provide a beautiful and relaxing environment for its human visitors
• Provide refuge and sustenance for non-human visitors, or in other words, habitat for native birds and animals
• Successfully combine a mixture of edible and ornamental plants
• Provide a net benefit to, rather than be a drain on the environment
• Be low-maintenance and drought-resistant