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Camille Dubuis-Welch

How to get started with wild gardening – landscaping experts share 4 key tips for a naturalistic outdoor space

Honey bee on a Mountain Mint plant.

Whether you have a green bone in your body or not, it is easy to understand why wild gardening has its appeal. A chance to daydream, or create naturalistic spaces that pollinators will love. But beyond the more mainstream wildlife gardening ideas, we were curious to find out any lesser-known tips for making your garden ideas even more eco-friendly. 

'Wild gardening defies the conventions of the typical formal garden and looks to nature for guiding principles,' is how landscaping expert Will Conway describes rewilding. Will is currently the Farm Director at Wildflower Farms, Auberge Resorts Collection, in the Hudson Valley – a space that underwent it's own rewilding transformation in the 80s, when founders Phillip and Kristin Rapoport took on the former dairy pasture to create a tree nursery. 

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