For the past year, Jessy Roy has been an anxious plant parent, keeping a close eye on the blossoms at her not-so-little balcony garden in Nairobi's Embakasi to rekindle what she once nurtured, but this time in a different environment.
Mrs Roy recalls what her plant paradise looked like when she lived in Arusha, Tanzania four years ago. In a way, all urban spaces reflect the eradication of the once vibrant plant population that once dotted her landscape.
