Alan Titchmarsh takes a dig at rewilding
Last year’s winning garden at the Chelsea Flower Show imagined a rewilded landscape marked by beavers, but with no evidence of gardening.
Now, before this year’s event, Alan Titchmarsh, the TV gardener, has urged judges to stop “pandering” to rewilding and celebrate gardening. He said the Royal Horticultural Society, which organises the show in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, would be “shooting itself in the foot” if it awarded another rewilded garden best in show.
Writing in Country Life magazine, Titchmarsh, 74, said the show’s “prime aim” should be to “celebrate horticultural excellence”. He added: “I can’t think of anyone who would argue with that. It’s only that, sometimes, it is obscured by the need to demonstrate that gardeners are not dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists,
