Awash with colour and inspiration

KEITH WILEY has been practising innovative horticulture for well over half a century, but his naturalistic planting style is very different from that created by Piet Oudolf and his followers. Mr Wiley’s visionary, painterly approach, combined with his nurseryman’s understanding of what any plant most needs, turns a visit to his Wildside garden on the edge of Dartmoor into a revelatory experience that is almost beyond comprehension.

Dartmoor shillet provided a home for Mediterranean cistus

Twenty years ago, after a long time making the Garden House at Buckland Monachorum, Devon, one of the most famous gardens in England, Mr Wiley and his artist wife, Ros, moved a few miles away to start their own garden