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Actress Susan Hampshire and David Bellamy with Sante Zanello on Tuesday |
Professor Bellamy is just wild about Sante’s garden
GREEN-FINGERED Sante Zanello was recognised for his wild flower garden outside his home at a prestigious Covent Garden ceremon.
Mr Zanello won Westminster’s award for “enriching the city’s biodiversity” in the London Green Corners Awards for the immaculate display outside Macintosh House in Beaumont Street, Marylebone.
Mr Zanello said: “The best thing about my garden is that I did not spend a penny on it. All the plants are recycled. I have nurtured them.”
The award ceremony was attended by Professor David Bellamy and actress Susan Hampshire, who are patrons of the Conservation Foundation, the charity organising the event.
David Bellamy, in presenting the award, praised Sante’s garden with its towering Yucca plants and wild flowers as “putting the heart back into the city”.
He said: “These days I find more and more that the sights and values we take for granted are disappearing. It is wonderful that all these green-fingered people are helping bring wild flowers back to London.”
The garden will be left to ruin if the council gets its way.
Since March, housing chiefs have been trying to evict the 68-year-old after they moved to close the 28-room block.
The other elderly tenants were paid £3,600 to move to different sheltered accommodation in other parts of Westminster.
Housing chiefs plans to sell the Marylebone lease back to landlords Howard de Walden.
Mr Zanello added: “It was flooded this week because the council no longer comes and looks after the building. The drains are all blocked.”
The former Mayor of Westminster Councillor Anthony Nicoll attended along with
Ms Hampshire. |
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