The secret garden centres: London nurseries are transforming unloved areas of the city – and will help you do the same with your home and garden. London is blessed with small and friendly nurseries. You’ll leave feeling better than you did when you arrived…

When Peter Milne and his partner Alejandro Beltran first got their hands on the south London site that is now The Nunhead Gardener, it was 2ft deep in mud with a leaking roof, no electricity or running water and had been empty for six years: a tiny corner plot backed by dark, abandoned railway arches.

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