What Is Wild and Why It Matters

A well-made home landscape should be full of life, human and otherwise, providing infinite daily opportunities to experience that glorious multiplicity of things and living processes.

Wildness is a renewable resource. Inviting a bit of authentic wildness into your garden is the most rewarding way to create a truly vibrant landscape that will sustain both the gardeners and a stunning array of local and regional biodiversity. 

Rather than maintaining plants in fixed patterns, gardens that welcome wildness embrace the resiliency of managed, self-perpetuating plant communities.

In this Earth Day webinar, Rick Darke will discuss in detail the dynamic nature of wild gardening. Using examples of landscapes he's designed or co-designed, he'll demonstrate how this approach is sensibly ecological and eminently practical for homeowners who wish to adopt a meaningful stewardship model for their home habitat.

Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of wildness as a continuum, a renewed awareness of its presence in everyday life, and a framework for creating landscapes that are both functional and rooted in place.