Rewilding your garden is nonsense
‘Gardens exist to grow beautiful plants’
THERE is an old story about the head gardener at one of the Oxford colleges talking to an American tourist who greatly admired the fine fescues and lawnmower stripes of the quads. How did he manage to create such a beautiful sward? Well, said the Englishman, you just mow it and mow it… for 500 years.
This came to mind last month when I saw a picture of ‘the wildflower meadow’ at King’s College, Cambridge. I
