Don't be scared of rewilding, Monty Don and Alan Titchmarsh: it's a garden revelation | Isabella Tree

Celebrity gardeners are in uproar - but abandoning perfection can both help the environment and create beautiful spacesCelebrity gardeners have been throwing down the gardening gloves and stamping up and down on the parterre. The uproar is all about rewilding - how it cannot, must not, should not apply to gardening.Rewilding gardens is "puritanical nonsense", rails Monty Don. Alan Titchmarsh believes gardeners have been "brainwashed". He's just written to the Lords about it. The rewilding craze, he told peers, is an "ill-considered trend" loaded with "misleading propaganda" that will "deplete our gardens of their botanical riches" and be "catastrophic" for wildlife.Isabella Tree runs Knepp Castle estate with conservationist Charlie Burrell. They are the co-authors of The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding Big and Small Continue reading...