Inner-city gardens offer scope for the inventive

By Megan Backhouse
Updated October 11 2014 - 12:18am, first published October 10 2014 - 11:45pm
Growing up: Anna Plunkett in her sports uniform.
Growing up: Anna Plunkett in her sports uniform.
Anna Plunkett recently went to a camellia show in Albury with her mum and dad, and took this photograph. ''My mum has over 20 plants in her garden and when we were born she planted a camellia tree for me and my brothers.''
Anna Plunkett recently went to a camellia show in Albury with her mum and dad, and took this photograph. ''My mum has over 20 plants in her garden and when we were born she planted a camellia tree for me and my brothers.''

Such are the confines of inner-city life that Luke Sales gardens from his bathtub and has a windowsill for a growing space, while Anna Plunkett has a front yard that is more about plants clambering up rather than out. It hasn't always been like this.

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