Our time in the outdoors is always something we treasure.

It’s a puzzle then as to why we devote so little time to better landscape design.

It’s interesting to work out what value we place on the great outdoors.

If you ask people to talk about their visits to cities like Melbourne, Sydney, New York or Paris, and what they liked most about being there, most would answer that their best experiences involved the outdoors.

Memories of a city visit or a trip into the wild have little in common apart from being outdoors.