Hello.

It’s All Green to Me is an educational landscape initiative founded by Lily Bakratsa, an architect and landscape architect who has worked across architecture, landscape design, horticulture and ecological management.

The initiative was born from a simple observation: we need to understand nature better if we want to create places that work with it, rather than against it.

Our work includes educational courses, participatory design, community projects and public consultation. Sometimes the aim is to teach and other times it is to listen. Most of the times the aim is simply to encourage people to stop, look more closely and appreciate what is already growing around them.

Why “It’s All Green to Me”?

The name is a little play on the phrase “It’s all Greek to me” — something we say when we don’t understand something.

We thought the same could be said about nature. For many people, plants, ecology, soil and landscape can feel complicated or unfamiliar. It’s All Green to Me is about making these things easier to understand and more accessible to everyone.

You don’t need to be a landscape architect, gardener or ecologist to understand and appreciate nature. You just need to know what to look for, how to observe it and how to work with it. The more we understand nature, the better we can design, care for and live alongside it.