For decades we have learned that a Garden What was nice was the one where the grass looked like a carpet, the flowerbeds were filled with squares and that floors They didn’t advance an inch beyond their assigned space.
Today the paradigm of order is giving way to that of life. The wild gardens -either newly designed gardens– are no longer a fad among eccentric landscape gardeners: they are a new (and more humane) way of understanding the role of greenery in urban contexts.
Less control, more ecosystem. Less cutting, more pollinators. The equation is simple and positive.
“Rewilding” is a concept born to restore large wild landscapes and is now also applied to balconies, terraces, etc Reasons urban.
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The question then is: Do you dare to stop your garden from obeying you?
A wild garden is not a wasteland. It’s not a renunciation, it’s a different aesthetic and a different logic.
It’s about giving nature some of the protagonism again, This allows species to reproduce, spread and coexist more freely.
A wild garden It is a platform for reactivating ecological networks: where there used to be just a geometric fence and grass cut to the millimeter, there are now hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, beetles and insectivorous birds.
It is not necessary to tear down everything that was planted and start over. You can start making tactical decisions gradually:
Give up Garden The catalog implies the assumption that not everything should be under human control and that sometimes the truly beautiful is what eludes it.
A Garden You don’t look wild: you hear it, you smell it, you live it. And if it is well thought out, it will also become a small haven for green resistance in the city.
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