WITH reference to your article "How Does Your Garden Grow", (The Press, April 2), the simple fact is in many cases it does not.

Without wishing to sound pompous ( I am not blessed with green fingers, although I try my best), I have observed over the past few years, that landscaping our gardens has taken a definite turn, but not in the "Capability Brown" direction.

One can see many householders spending vast sums of money in dispensing with lawns and gardens and replacing them with concrete and gravel, interlaced with the occasional sometimes oriental tree or shrub, with fancy Latin names more in keeping with the "Ideal Home Exhibition".

If we are to expound our indignation in the future over green belt issues, I think we should look closer to home and the environment we live in, if we are to retain our green and pleasant land. The small plots of land we spend most of our life on need to breathe and encourage wildlife and flowers without being encased in a straitjacket of artificial concrete.

Anyway, that is enough of the green issue for today. My spadework is finished for the time being, before the lawnmower comes out of hibernation.

Kenneth Bowker, Vesper Walk, Huntington, York.