Every garden has the potential to become a beautiful, biodiverse space that plays a crucial role in supporting the wellbeing of people and wildlife. This isn’t about letting your plot go to seed – in fact, taking conscious (simple) steps to improve your planting and landscaping will do more to improve the sustainability of your garden than letting it go wild.
It’s an approach that plantswoman Sarah Raven is keen to promote. ‘Twelve years ago, I presented a BBC TV series called Bees, Butterflies and Blooms, which looked at the decline of our beloved pollinators and what we could do to protect them,’ she says.
