Ms Urquhart declared at the time that she and her partner were “passionate ecological restorationists”. In 2022, Lulu Urquhart and Adam Hunt’s beaver-themed A Rewilding Britain Landscape won the title at the Chelsea Flower Show. He added: “The deliberate and skilful evidence of human handiwork is the opposite of trendy ‘rewilding’ and completely, triumphantly beautiful.” “The result might be beautiful and richly satisfying as well as very good for wildlife of all kinds, but it will not be a garden.”
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Leave any patch of ground completely untouched by human hand and it will happily become whatever it wants to be. If you want a truly wild garden then simply walk away. “It is as though a so-called ‘wild’ garden that mimics natural conditions is somehow worthier and more moral than one in which mankind’s creative skills are more obviously played out. Their comments in the latest Gardeners’ World magazine come amid a vogue for unkempt gardens, while weeds in particular emerged as a new trend at the Royal Horticultural Society’s annual Chelsea show, appearing in a third of competition gardens this year.ĭon said of the wild garden trend: “I sense a degree of guilt about this at the moment. The Gardener’s World presenter and fellow expert Alan Titchmarsh have both criticised the recent fashion for adopting a Laissez-faire approach to lawns and weeds out of a “moral” compunction, and doing as little to a garden as possible in order to promote wildlife.īut Don has insisted that an untouched patch of ground is “not a garden”, while Titchmarsh endorsed the traditional approach of actively “beautifying” a patch of land. The trend for the unkempt “wild garden” has been steadily growing among avid gardeners, and reached the point that even weeds were featured at this year’s Chelsea Flower show.īut followers of the latest horticultural trend are barking up the wrong tree, according to Monty Don, who has branded wild gardening as “puritanical nonsense”.
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