If you've ever been frustrated by how much the BMC spends on beautifying gardens, only to ruin them, here's your chance to prevent that. Just weeks after mid-day completed its garden audit series, highlighting readers' complaints about the state of the city's parks, the civic body is now considering inviting inputs from citizens on how best to improve these green spaces.

Ironically, one of the biggest complaints that Mumbaikars have had about our parks is that there just isn't enough greenery. In a city that is often referred to as a concrete jungle, each and every green pocket is precious, and yet, over the past few years, the BMC has spent more on concretising gardens than on beautifying it with more plants. Instead of building amphitheatres or concrete flower beds or walkways, the civic body now intends to focus more on horticulture in upcoming projects. Henceforth, the gate, compound wall and toilets will be the only concrete structures in a garden, said civic sources.