What is a wild garden?
The idea of a wild garden is to form a more naturally flowing area outside your house, kept simply by letting the plants grow on their own, with no styling and no rules to follow. By allowing nature to take its course, you’ll be rewarded with a natural outdoor space, where you’ll be able to see the plants, animals, and birds that build their home there.
Your garden may seem small, but it can be an environment for different organisms and a natural place for them to grow and live. Why have plain fences when a green, living boundary can bring the beauty of flowers, scent, berries, rich autumn colours, and wildlife?
Looking after your wild garden is one of the best ways in which you'll be able to develop a natural community for wild plants and other animals. A wild garden can be a beautiful habitat too!
What benefits do wildlife gardeners get?
All gardeners get enjoyment from their gardens – that’s why we have a tendency to garden. However, wildlife gardeners experience an entirely new dimension of enjoyment and happiness from the colour, life, movement, and interest our wildlife brings, and from the knowledge that we are doing what we can to help nature.
Understanding how gardens ‘work’ as ecological habitats make us be better gardeners, grow better produce, and save money. Gardens are also where our kids play; first learn about nature and living animals, moreover as plants.
Reasons to set it free.
There are a lot of benefits to creating your garden to go wild. Keep in mind that cutting short plants is something we commonly do in our backyard, but it is not the norm in a plant’s natural environment. We feel we need to bind plants because that’s what the magazines show. Taking care of plants would require your time and attention, but allowing your plants to grow naturally, becoming shaggy around the edges also means a whole lot less maintenance for you.
Another interesting thing about having a wild garden is that it becomes a more natural garden. We spend some time with nature because we get fascinated with the sights, smells, and surroundings that nature provides. Some way or another, we lose those same feelings when we bring plants into our yard and so style them into something they are not. Instead, allow your plants to take a more natural growth pattern and retain the essence of nature in your yard.
Wildflowers are typically seen as invasive within the restrictive bounds of a yard, but they are also a wonderful way to bring the colors and calming visuals of nature into your space.
Key Takeaways:
We are beginning to understand the various significant ways in which getting close to nature helps individuals’ mental health, happiness, and wellbeing, aside from the physical exercise benefits of being an active gardener. We now know that the whole community benefits from gardens and green spaces full of wildlife.
As we acknowledge the Community Gardening Week this month of April from the 6th to the 12th. It may very well be a great time to start allowing your garden to grow wild. If we manage our gardens for natural life, these creatures and many more will feel the benefits.
A small space does not limit us to gardening for wildlife; small changes can make a big habitat. Your garden is meant to be nourished, and looking after wildlife is admittedly enjoyable!
So what are your thoughts about wild gardening? We would love to hear from you.
**We in Nurtured Properties support environmental sustainability, through investing in sustainable properties. We nurture empty properties back to life by focusing on renovation and restoration instead of new build construction. We use recycled products and materials on all of our projects and throughout all of our managed properties measures are put in place to reduce all forms of waste.
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