Mum sent me some packs of seeds- flowers, because it’s a little too late to sow food plants this year- and I’m off to do some geurilla planting. Consider it a way of fighting back. Manchester doesn’t seem as bad as some of the examples in this article, but because of the compensation culture, CCTV and the basic antipathy of the urbs to greenery, councils all over the place are destroying parks and wild areas within the city.