At AKAS we love visualizing and creating spaces for people to enjoy and inhabit. It is extremely rewarding to hear feedback from clients about how much they enjoy their gardens. On a larger scale, each time we design a landscape we are thinking about habitat, ecology and how this garden will become an ecosystem. An ‘island’ within the densely populated inner-city, and how this will have a positive impact on the future. Gardens create both habitat and refuge for a variety of species and insects. Flowers and other plants provide opportunity for pollinators and canopy coverage can aid in curbing urban heat island effect. Not to mention the amount of plants which will germinate from the original plants and create new ecologies within the urban environment.