When the rewilded garden by Urquhart & Hunt won ‘Best in Show’ at RHS Chelsea in 2002, it triggered a debate about whether rewilding could be called gardening at all.
Traditional gardeners thought it looked messy and unkempt. If you just let your garden ‘go’, it will be full of weeds. Surely that can lead to invasive plants swamping your carefully chosen flowers and a wild west of pests and diseases?
There can be problems with allowing nature to take over. If your garden gets dominated by one kind of weed, such as brambles, then the wildlife that relies on other plants will lose a food and habitat source. That is not good for biodiversity or wildlife in general.
But a rewilded garden doesn’t mean a totally neglected garden. In The Book of Wilding by Isabella Tree, she compares some pruning and mowing to herbivores munching on trees, shrubs and meadows in the wild. (Please note that links to Amazon are affiliate, see disclosure).
And if you are gardening with environmental difficulties, then a rewilding approach is worth thinking about. Instead of trying to make plants grow somewhere that is say, hot and dry or cold and wet, you can simply see what arrives and what thrives.
So I enjoyed visiting the re-wilded garden of environmental activist and film-maker Serena Schellenberg. Her garden floods often, which makes traditional gardening difficult.
She describes herself as an inexperienced gardener, but says that this way of gardening has given her confidence.
What is re-wilding a garden?
A rewilded garden is different from a wildlife-friendly garden. In the Book of Wilding, Isabella Tree shows three different gardens. One is a traditional garden with a fence and trimmed hedge, mown lawn and neat borders. It has garden lighting and
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Hey GPODers! Today we’re back in the flower-filled garden of Heidi Weirether. We first saw her garden a little earlier on in the summer (you check check out that post here: Heidi’s Colorful Garden in Fairfield County) and it’s incredible to see how much has changed in a month’s time! As with much of the northeast this year, Heidi is experiencing incredible hydrangea blooms—but that is just the tip of the floral iceberg in her sensational garden:
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